North Korean defectors urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major ...

A North Korean soldier crossed the heavily fortified border into South Korea on foot on Oct. 19, and several armed North ...

Since last year, North Korea has further reinforced its side of the border with anti-tank barriers and other fortifications, ...

Two North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the inter-Korean border last week, apparently in pursuit of a fellow soldier who ...

Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the 1950-53 war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

If confirmed, the soldier would join tens of thousands of North Koreans who have fled poverty and repression in North Korea since the peninsula was split by war in the 1950s. Last year, 236 North ...

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.

But K-drama hits differently in North Korea compared to the rest of the world, wielding huge influence over the way people ...

The founder of the Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio was pronounced dead at a Seoul hospital on Friday, years after fighting a lung cancer ...

North Korea successfully tested a "new cutting-edge weapons system" involving hypersonic missiles, state-run media reported ...

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 ...

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 ...