Yeon Mi Park escaped North Korea when she was 13 years old. And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk being killed, imprisoned, and trafficked after they escape.

Yeon Mi Park escaped North Korea when she was 13 years old. And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk being killed, imprisoned, and trafficked after they escape.

Every year, hundreds of people make the perilous journey out of North Korea as they escape from the "hermit kingdom". But the number of defectors has been steadily dropping in recent years ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean defector and the author of "The Girl With Seven Names." She tells us what life was really like in North Korea until she fled at the ...

Referring to a report by the South Korean news channel YTN, Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector and author, wrote on X: "How low can @ZelenskyyUa get? Ukraine is violating international law ...

SEOUL--A person who crossed the border into North Korea on New Year’s Day was likely a defector who had slipped through the same heavily fortified frontier in the other direction to settle in ...

President Park Geun-hye and her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are preparing for a summit in Beijing next month. Observers say the issue of North Korean defectors in China is likely to set the ...

A former North Korean military sergeant has revealed that Pyongyang's soldiers deployed to Russia to fight in Ukraine fear capture more than death, as they are told their families will be executed ...