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

Escaping North Korea is a journey that is almost always a perilous one — thousands of miles on buses or motorcycles or sneaking on foot through mountains and valleys amid falling snow or torrential ...

Defectors thus live moment by moment with the risk of being discovered and forcibly returned to North Korea. If pregnant, the defectors also face the threat of forced abortion on return. The looming ...

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

(Bloomberg) -- Her badly decomposed body was found in a rundown Seoul apartment about a year after she died, discovered only after government housing officials sought to evict her for failing to pay ...

U.S. officials suspect that some of the intelligence used to justify war against Iraq came from defectors who were lying or reporting false information planted by Saddam Hussein's regime, a newspaper ...

As more North Korean defectors make their way into their southern counterpart, one would think that that life in South Korea would be rife with opportunity when compared to the North. A recent ...

Four North Korean defectors have shown symptoms linked to radiation exposure, according to the Yonhap News Agency, citing the South Korean government. However, scientists were unable to determine ...

GOP leaders in both chambers of Congress are under growing pressure from rank-and-file Republicans to address health ...