The United Nations Command released a video showing a North Korea defector who brazenly crossed ... On November 13, the North Korean soldier began his escape by speeding toward a bridge in ...

AFTER desperately fleeing across a frozen river to escape ... a Chinese prison guard to let her use his phone in order to make a final call. They have not heard from her since with North Korea's ...

Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean defector and the author of "The Girl ... time in North Korea that it felt like she was living in a prison and that she thought public executions were "very normal ...

The book focuses on what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." Through a variety of sources, from the citizens of Pyongyang to defectors ...

Born in North Korea, ethnically Chinese, and a defector to South Korea ... Like any refugees, North Koreans who escape to the South have a deep-seated need to remember their home country.