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 ...
A secret US operation spent months trying to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 during the Korean War. A North Korean defector who never heard of the operation handed them one and was paid $100,000 for it. The ...
Imagine living in the dictatorship of North Korea, hungry all the time, laboring for no pay. You decide to try to escape into China, dodging bullets or the possibility of forced repatriation.
Dec. 29 (Asia Today) --North Korean defector groups on Monday urged South Korea's Unification Ministry to halt its push to replace the official term for defectors, warning that one leading alternative ...
Thirteen fewer North Koreans defected across the southern border in 2025 than the year before for an annual tally of 223, according to recent data from South Korea’s Ministry of Unification. Of those, ...
Dec. 24 (Asia Today) --People Power Party lawmaker Park Chung-kwon, a former North Korean defector, criticized the Unification Ministry's plan to change the designation for North Korean defectors to ...
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