Two brothers spent a decade plotting their escape from North Korea – an audacious plan conceived by their late father, whose ashes they carried as they crept toward a boat moored in the shadows. There ...

Dec. 29 (Asia Today) --North Korean defector groups on Monday urged South Korea's Unification Ministry to halt its push to replace the official term for defectors, warning that one leading alternative ...

Thirteen fewer North Koreans defected across the southern border in 2025 than the year before for an annual tally of 223, according to recent data from South Korea’s Ministry of Unification. Of those, ...

South Korean troops fired warning shots at two North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the fortified inter-Korean border not long after another soldier defected to the South in that area, South ...

A report has emerged detailing testimonies from North Korean defectors who claim that Chinese authorities arrest them, detain them in North Korea-China border detention centers, and subject them to ...

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- Ham Jin-woo, a North Korean defector-turned-journalist who went missing in 2017 in border areas between North Korea and China, has been officially recognized by the ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about ...