North Korean defectors underscored that human rights weren’t an abstract ideal but the ability to speak, make choices and ...

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 ...

In these swindles, con artists charge between 50,000 and 100,000 Chinese yuan ($6,900 to $13,800) to learn whether the ...

Pyongyang boasts of crushing underground churches, but defectors and rights groups say secret worship persists despite harsh crackdowns and severe punishments.

A South Korean court on Monday handed a suspended sentence to a North Korean defector who attempted to cross the border back into the North last year using a stolen bus, according to local media. The ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- 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 about ...

North Korean defectors and members of the South Korean church gathered on June 21 at Saejoongang Church in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, for the 2025 Pan-Korean Reunification Festival, a time of worship ...

More than 75 members of the Georgetown community listened to harrowing testimony from three North Korean defectors at a panel hosted by the Truth and Human Rights in North Korea club Wednesday evening ...

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 ...