Timothy Cho, who escaped from North Korea, has explained the strict rules inside Kim Jong-un's dictatorship which govern ...

North Korea let Western tourists visit for the first time since 2020. But there are ethical issues around taking a vacation ...

Even under heavy surveillance, defectors have taken to the skies to escape North Korea. In 1953, Lt. No Kum-sok flew a Soviet MiG-15 jet to Gimpo Air Base in South Korea, a story later chronicled ...

Why did I suddenly decide to escape from North Korea? That day, I overheard my aunt and uncle talking. The people who had raised me after my mother escaped weren’t concerned about my future.

They struck an uneven harmony singing the Korean classic “Arirang.” Every night, scenes such as this play out in cities across Asia, where North Korea operates restaurants that serve standard North ...

The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Business brought Yeonmi Park to speak about her experience escaping North Korea as a part of the Leonard E. Read Public Speaker Series ...

fights to escape North Korea and build a better life for himself across the DMZ border. But it's the story of his ruthless commanding officer, Ri Hyun-Sang (Koo Kyo-Hwan), and what he's escaping ...

AFTER desperately fleeing across a frozen river to escape North Korea 25 years ago, Kim Kyu-li was able to reinvent her life and built her own catering business in London. Yet on the other side of ...

North Korea is dismantling a facility at its Mount Kumgang resort used for hosting meetings between families separated after ...

At a time when the notoriously secretive state may be open to dialogue and senior officials are willing to talk about big issues such as nuclear weapons, could there be a permanent shift for North ...

The highest-ranking defector to escape North Korea in years, Ri Il Kyu has met Kim Jong Un seven times. Setting out his aims for next year, Kim Jong Un also hardened his stance on unification with ...