Female defectors working part-time to support families back home have no recourse when Chinese nationals refuse to return ...

North Korean defectors underscored that human rights weren’t an abstract ideal but the ability to speak, make choices and imagine a future in everyday life during a panel in Seoul on Monday to mark ...

World North Korean Diaspora Council chair Thae Yong-ho, will present appreciation plaques Wednesday to 2025 Seoul Human ...

A North Korean defector who claims to have been tortured while detained in the country is suing leader Kim Jong Un and other state officials. The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, a South ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — 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 ...

These defectors try to smuggle books, movies and music back across the border. Roughly 35 miles from the world's most fortified border, Jung Hoon Choi led a group of 20 fellow North Korean defectors ...

33,022 North Koreans have defected to the South as of 2019. SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Eunju escaped North Korea in 2005, disillusioned with the communist regime. She still vividly remembers that night ...

If I ride the clouds and float away, I’ll reach my hometown.” On the evening of the 2nd, at Yeongsan Art Hall in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, songs of longing for home, embodying the joys and sorrows of ...

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, sketching out their own ...

Can two North Korean defectors take a new K-pop boy band to global superstardom? Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — In a quiet corner of Seoul’s Hyuga Cafe, a warm, honey-toned space nestled inside what once ...