Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country ...

Activists, officials and defectors highlighted human rights violations in North Korea at a high-level meeting of the United ...

A group of North Korean defectors handed Ukrainian officials ... wishing to surrender as prisoners of war, published an appeal last month to North Korean soldiers urging them to "not die ...

North Korea has begun steps to arrest and investigate those responsible for a failed launch of its second naval destroyer ...

For the Roh family, the path out of North Korea lies through cold river water ... It was everything the Kim Jong Un regime wants us to hear on our news — the parades, the missiles.

Just 67 North Korean defectors arrived last year ... The South and North simultaneously became United Nations member states in 1991, against the backdrop of Cold War detente.

The author Heidi Tucker poses with subjects Jiyeon Maeng and Doohyun Kim. Their book is now available through Heidi's website. (Photo courtesy of Heidi Tucker) She thought he was going away on ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — In the shadow of what looks like Seoul’s colossal chrome space station, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, hundreds of defectors ... North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.