Four North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds at a comrade fleeing into South Korea and hit him five times in the first shooting at the jointly controlled area of the heavily fortified border in ...

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 ...

When she first met a mysterious South Korean man who introduced himself as Dr Seong, the woman thought she had found a father ...

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.

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 ...

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