Filmmaker Jeremy Workman discusses his film School for Defectors, premiering at this year's True/False Film Fest.

Thousands of S. Koreans gathered in central Seoul on Sunday to call for peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula and oppose two-state framework ...

Dec. 23 (Asia Today) --Some North Korean-born people of Chinese descent become effectively stateless as soon as they arrive in South Korea, rights advocates and defectors say, because authorities do ...

South Korea plans to develop new in-depth indicators to better detect suicide risk among North Korean defectors, with a particular focus on women, who account f ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — 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 ...

A South Korean marine major-general was relieved of his command Friday after the military failed to prevent a man's illegal defection back to the North, officials said. The man's departure only came ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenneth Bae, the Korean-American missionary who endured 735 days as a political prisoner in North Korea, is leading a renewed ...

Hardy male agents wielding guns or knives have been ditched in favour of their female counterparts, who strike fear into the hearts of enemies, said An Chan-Il, a North Korean defector and renowned ...