A senior North Korean diplomat who defected two years ago painted a grim picture of life in the hermit kingdom as he ...

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found.

He could not shake the shackle off. At the other end of it was a North Korean officer, who went with him everywhere. If Kim Seong Min as much as used the lavatory, the officer came along too. For ...

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”. At such a critical moment in ...

Kim Seongmin, a former military propagandist who fled North Korea by jumping off a train, defected to the South and from there, as a human rights campaigner, broadcast news ​to his isolated home ...

Every year, North Koreans risk their lives to flee the regime. Crossing rivers, barbed wire, and hostile borders, they face prison or execution if ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he still has good memories of U.S. President Donald Trump and urged Washington to drop its demand that the North surrender its nukes as a precondition for resuming ...

At a massive military parade attended by foreign leaders, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rolled out his nuclear-armed ...