Two North Korean women in Hebei province were arrested after exchanging WeChat messages about escaping to South Korea.

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 ...

SEOUL, Oct. 22 (UPI) --North Korean defectors and experts urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major conference on the issue opened in ...

There are nearly 35,000 defectors from North Korea living in South Korea. Many of them rely on a secretive network of brokers to check on their families back home or to send them money when their ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will expand the "Employment Retention Incentive Support Program for North Korean Defectors" this year. The ...

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 ...

A secret US operation spent months trying to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 during the Korean War. A North Korean defector who never heard of the operation handed them one and was paid $100,000 for it.