Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of ...

A senior North Korean diplomat who defected two years ago painted a grim picture of life in the hermit kingdom as he ...

When she first met a mysterious South Korean man who introduced himself as Dr Seong, the woman thought she had found a father ...

South Korean police said on Sunday they had arrested a defector who tried to return to North Korea after a similar, successful crossing in July escalated tensions on the peninsula.

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.

Kim Jong-un’s regime was this week reported to be cracking down on young women who have had illegal breast implants and other forms of cosmetic surgery. North Korea’s security services are said to be ...

The United States and South Korea have converged on the idea of dialogue with North Korea. But can it work? Will it? North Korea advanced pragmatic and gradual arms reduction proposals to the United ...

Stirring depictions of North Korean soldiers and their Russian comrades resisting a hostile West dominate a Moscow exhibition celebrating increasingly close ties with Pyongyang. The walls of Moscow's ...

A viral claim on social media alleged last week that North Korea had threatened to send troops from Ukraine to launch a nuclear strike on Tel Aviv if Israel harmed Swedish activist Greta Thunberg ...

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong defended his country’s nuclear weapons program during a rare address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday. It was the first ...

In South Korea’s capital, Seoul, there are now tens of thousands of North Korean refugees, all living with an intense emotional burden—and a US-founded organization is helping to alleviate it. Freedom ...

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