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

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

South Korea is planning to change the term “defectors” to describe North Koreans who flee the country to resettle in the South, as the word carries “negative connotation”. South Korea’s Ministry of ...

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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Jihyun Park escaped North Korea twice in dramatic circumstances. LONDON -- Jihyun Park had something of a political awakening at the start of the pandemic last year. Moved by stories of care homes ...

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 ...