PPP lawmaker Park, a former North Korean defector, criticized the Unification Ministry's plan to change "the defectors" to ...

South Korea's Unification Ministry said Tuesday it will quickly decide and implement a shift from "North Korean defectors" to ...

The unification ministry said Friday it plans to integrate the main center and branch of Hanawon, the state facility for ...

A record 81 percent of North Korean defectors living in South Korea said they are "satisfied" with their lives in the South, ...

The North Korean woman, who could only escape with one of her sons, said her eldest son was beaten to death after she fled, per Bloomberg.

Police in Busan have requested the arrest of a North Korean defector in her 50s on suspicion of killing her younger brother, ...

South Korea’s Ministry of Unification plans to merge its two resettlement centers for North Korean defectors next year as the ...

A North Korean defector who claims to have been tortured while detained in the country is suing leader Kim Jong Un and other state officials. The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, a South ...

Tae Yongho has become the first North Korean defector to hold a ministerial role in South Korea, which experts say will annoy Kim Jong Un.

Il-yong Ju, who escaped from North Korea and spoke to Donald Trump about his journey, said his family put up and decorated a ...

Il-yong Ju, who managed to escape North Korea, shared how his family marked Christmas in their village every year without ...

These defectors try to smuggle books, movies and music back across the border. Roughly 35 miles from the world's most fortified border, Jung Hoon Choi led a group of 20 fellow North Korean defectors ...