Through experience, North Korean people do not trust the government and have no expectations to get any help or protection from it. For North Koreans to make a living, escape from North Korea ...

JI HYUN PARK escaped the cruel North Korean regime twice – fleeing across the border over a frozen river with a hail of bullets flying at her back. In an incredible tale of human resilience, … ...

After weeks of waiting in hiding, the moment had finally come. On the night of March 19, 2011, I left my safe house and took my first steps toward the border. I had been told that North Korean ...

Indeed, the North Korean people are also no strangers to hardship. Most agree the increased secrecy has been of real value to the DPRK's security services and will thus likely remain.

But it is another thing entirely to see videos of life inside North Korea and bear witness to an escape. When you watch Beyond Utopia, you are not a mere consumer of entertainment, you feel as if ...

In the film Beyond Utopia, Madeleine Gavin obtained secret footage that shows what life is truly like for ordinary people in the country. ‘Beyond Utopia’ Director Madeleine Gavin On Family’s ...

North Korea is one of the most isolated nations in the world but details of life in the hermit nation do manage to trickle out from time to time via those who escape the clutches of the ...

Seoul, South Korea — Just two years ago, Zane Han couldn’t have imagined his life today: living in Seoul and writing whatever he wants about the North Korean government, which once tried to ...

More than 34,000 North Korean defectors have entered the country since 1953. But they still find it difficult to adapt to life in a nation so geographically close to their own, yet so different.

JI HYUN PARK escaped the cruel North Korean regime twice – fleeing across the border over a frozen river with a hail of bullets flying at her back. In an incredible tale of human resilience, … ...