Two brothers spent a decade plotting their escape from North Korea – an audacious plan conceived by their late father, whose ...

Chinese police in Liaoning and Jilin are summoning entire defector networks for interrogation whenever one individual goes ...

SEOUL--In the 10 years since Kim Jong Un came to power, North Korea has cracked down on people trying to get out of the ...

A single photograph released after North Korea’s 15th Supreme People’s Assembly reveals much. It is a so-called ...

Remittance brokers are extorting defector families using delivery videos as blackmail, threatening to report them to state ...

North Korean defectors urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major conference on the issue opened in downtown Seoul on Wednesday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine living in the dictatorship of North Korea, hungry all the time, laboring for no pay. You decide to try to escape into ...

Just 67 North Korean defectors arrived last year. Inter-Korean dialogue and exchange have ground to a halt. Seoul's Unification Ministry has a... ANSEONG, South Korea — Nine women sit in a classroom, ...

Yujin runs a matchmaking agency — and her clients are North Korean women and South Korean men looking to date.

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — In a quiet corner of Seoul’s Hyuga Cafe, a warm, honey-toned space nestled inside what once served as the dormitory for K-pop megaband BTS, two young men sip iced americanos ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - A decade after leaving her family behind to flee North Korea, the defector was overwhelmed with excitement when she spoke to her 22-year-old son on the phone for the first time in ...

The North Korean defector had sped across the demilitarized zone in a stolen jeep, then crawled south as the men who had been his comrades moments ago shot at him with handguns and AK-47 rifles. South ...