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 ...

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 ...

There are about 30,000 North ... first defector to be elected to South Korea's National Assembly. The defectors offer a rare look into the highly secretive regime under leader Kim Jong Un.

There are about 30,000 North Korean defectors ... including embezzlement. The defectors offer a rare look into the highly secretive regime under leader Kim Jong Un. They have told stories of ...

North Korea has detained three senior shipyard officials following the failed launch of a major warship — a public embarrassment that enraged leader Kim Jong Un and was swiftly labelled by state ...

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 ...