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

Rights advocates say some N. Korean-born people of Chinese descent become effectively stateless in S. Korea after being ...

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, ...

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.

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — A group of North Korean defectors were puzzled by rows of blue squares projected onto a screen during a recent English class in this city 40 miles south of Seoul. “What is ...

A South Korean court on Monday handed a suspended sentence to a North Korean defector who attempted to cross the border back into the North last year using a stolen bus, according to local media. The ...

A North Korean defector known for her appearances on South Korean reality TV has returned to her former country and denounced the "propaganda" she once helped to produce. In a video released by North ...

Two defectors from North Korea spoke via Zoom to an audience of Missoulians last week, sharing their stories of escaping the autocratic regime to seek a new life in South Korea. The event on Feb. 21 ...

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 ...

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