SEOUL (Reuters) - Politics in South Korea is drawing high-profile North Korean defectors in numbers not seen before, aiming to remedy what they call failures by President Moon Jae-in's administration ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Nov 07, 2025, 08:18am EST A North Korean defector makes new ...
Many North Korean defectors in South Korea use a secret network of brokers to stay connected to those back home. But recently, South Korea investigated some of those brokers for espionage. There are ...
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 ...
I was shocked when I first arrived in Seoul. In North Korea, we were taught that South Korea was poorer,” said An Kang-kwon, ...
The GFCN analysis also states that, given the scarcity of confirmed information about North Korea, sensational claims about harsh measures are frequently and widely disseminated in Western media ...