Bella Seo, who fled North Korea when she was a teenager, has given a chilling account of what school life is like in the hermit kingdom, where children are forced to do hard labour.

The North Korean defector broker revealed all the routes of defection. The 314th episode of KBS Joy 'Ask Me Anything' will air at 8:30 p.m. on the 28th, featuring a storyteller who defected from ...

"Beyond Utopia" depicts what happens to defectors who are discovered hiding in China and sent back to North Korea. Officials in South Korea are so concerned about the situation that the National ...

And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk being killed, imprisoned, and trafficked after they escape. This is Park's harrowing story. Following is a transcript of the story.

An curved arrow pointing right. Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean defector and the author of "The Girl With Seven Names." She tells us what life was really like in North Korea until she fled at the ...

Other defectors in the South have also lost contact with their loved ones in North Korea amid the turmoil of COVID-19--and the trouble is not just on the North Korean side. The disconnection ...

Their study is based on extensive interviews with North Korean defectors, including former hunters, wildlife trade middlemen and buyers, and is the first in-depth assessment of North Korea's ...

But when the North Korean defector transports the bags to the border, fills them with helium and floats them into the North, they become a force that makes the Kim Jong-il regime have fits.

When Carroll School of Management sophomore Jieun Lee and her sister, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences junior Jueun Lee, volunteered to teach English to North Korean defectors in the Lees’ ...

days after it failed to stop a suspected North Korean defector who crossed the heavily fortified border to return to the North. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said South Korean surveillance cameras ...

A suspected North Korean defector crossed the de facto western maritime border last month and is now in the South, Seoul’s military said, days after Pyongyang said it would seal off the ...

North Korean defector and conservative activist Yeonmi Park spoke at Missouri State University. Park discussed her experiences in North Korea, her escape, and her concerns about perceived ...