Yeonmi Park, a conservative activist who escaped North Korea, was brought to Missouri State by the university's Turning Point ...

In North Korea, women are referred to as "one wheel of the revolutionary cart." A popular song titled "Women Are Flowers" ...

Bella Seo, who fled North Korea when she was a teenager, has given a chilling account of what school life is like in the ...

One of the gravest human rights violations taking place in North Korea is the practice of forced abortions. North Korean women, in search of a better life, cross the border into China. However, if ...

Narrator: Park wasn't alone. Around 70% of North Korean defectors are women, and many of them are targeted to be sold as brides or trafficked. Defectors are considered illegal migrant workers ...

76 — 12 men and 64 women — arrived in the South in the July-September period, bringing the total number of North Korean defectors to 34,259, the official said on the condition of anonymity.

A total of 38 North Korean defectors entered South Korea in the first quarter of this year, down slightly from the same period last year but up from 2023.

A two-time North Korean defector broke down in tears as he recalled ... He was a criminal because he helped three North Korean women to cross the border to China. So, three policemen, each with ...

Ahn, who has interviewed many North Korean defectors, said the smuggling of a vast amount of South Korean TV dramas and movies in the past 20 years that showed an elevated social status for women ...

Last year, 81 per cent of those escaping North Korea were women. North Korean defector Kumyoung Choi now lives in Queensland. She says many women heard of a better life through the market system.

Narrator: Park wasn't alone. Around 70% of North Korean defectors are women, and many of them are targeted to be sold as brides or trafficked. Defectors are considered illegal migrant workers ...