North Korean defectors in Seoul will receive training to become shuttle bus drivers as part of a new city initiative to ...

North Korea's government tightly controls television buying and viewing, allowing only state-approved content focused on ...

Rights groups say Pyongyang imposed excessive and unnecessary measures during pandemic that made ‘already isolated country ...

Timothy Cho, a two-time defector from North Korea, has revealed the difficulties citizens go through in the secretive nation ...

North Korean escapee and activist Timothy Cho shared the struggles that citizens face when purchasing basic consumer goods like televisions in the country.

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Musician Park Seong-jin, who defected from North Korea, captivates attention by revealing that even if one cannot handle ...

When Carroll School of Management sophomore Jieun Lee and her sister, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences junior Jueun Lee, volunteered to teach English to North Korean defectors in the Lees’ ...

South Korea’s Air Force reported that a fighter jet accidentally dropped eight bombs during a training exercise, injuring ...