The three detainees are being held responsible for the botched launch of a 5,000-ton destroyer, an accident that has drawn ...

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 ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Eunju Kim, who escaped starvation in North Korea in 1999, was sent back from China and fled a second time, told the United Nations on Tuesday that the country’s leader ...

North Korea has detained three senior shipyard officials following the failed launch of a major warship — a public ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Eunju Kim, who escaped starvation in North Korea in 1999 ... human trafficking and sexual slavery. But the two defectors and human rights defenders detailed numerous ...

North Korean escapees, activists and supporters made an emphatic call for global action to enhance the human rights situation ...

Their study is based on extensive interviews with North Korean defectors, including former hunters ... and member of the UN Security Council, for example, UN Security Council Resolution 2397 ...

PYONGYANG - A major accident occurred at the launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer, state media reported Thursday, with leader Kim Jong Un calling ... Chan-il, a defector-turned ...

Then, in 2011, 27-year-old Kim Jong Un succeeded his father as the country ... “You don’t have any freedom,” says Hyun-Seung Lee, a North Korean defector who lives in Washington, DC ...

Kim Moon-soo, the candidate from the conservative People's Power Party in next month's presidential election, said Tuesday ...