Two brothers spent a decade plotting their escape from North Korea – an audacious plan conceived by their late father, whose ashes they carried as they crept toward a boat moored in the shadows. There ...

North Korean defector Kim Seong-Min, then head of Free North Korea Radio, shouts slogans during a rally to improve human rights conditions in North Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 14, 2014.

A new report reveals that the number of people executed for consuming South Korean cultural content surged by 250 per cent ...

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 ...

U.S. Rep. Young Kim pledged to work for the swift reauthorization of the North Korea Human Rights Act, which has lapsed for ...

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 ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (CNN) — A North Korean defector has issued an emotional plea to one of the world's most powerful men, China's President Xi Jinping. "My son is now four, please think of my son as ...

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 ...

He said Pyo South Korea's top nuclear envoy has stressed the need to swiftly resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, calling it the "most urgent" challenge to the nonproliferation regime, the foreign ...