North Korean residents are seen in a village in Kaepung ... facial recognition system, the escape routes for defectors trying to escape through China to a third country have become more dangerous.

The son of traitorous parents, a member of North Korea's "hostile class", the lowest of the low and smeared for life. He was also one of the thousands who tried to escape North Korea's brutal ...

Human rights groups urge South Korea to offer defection pathways for North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine, amid rising ...

The Ukrainian military is conducting psychological warfare against North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces, seeking to persuade them to surrender rather than needlessly lose their lives ...