SEOUL--The majority of North Koreans who resettled in South Korea over the last decade said they never received government ...

SEOUL--South Korea has rejected refugee status for ethnic Chinese people who have been “stateless” since they fled North ...

Chinese police questioned a defector in Jilin province using Kuaishou messages, alarming defectors who believed the app was ...

North Korea has authorized shoot-to-kill orders at the border and is coordinating with Chinese police to track and pressure ...

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 ...

North Korean defector Kim Seong-Min, then head of Free North Korea Radio, shouts slogans during a rally to improve human rights conditions in North Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 14, 2014.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Nov 07, 2025, 08:18am EST A North Korean defector makes new ...

For some North Korean defectors, freedom begins upon arriving in South Korea. And for those at Hanawon, the government-run ...