South Korea’s spy agency says a North Korea diplomat based in Cuba has defected to South Korea. The National Intelligence Service said Tuesday that media reports on the defection of a North Korean counselor of political affairs in Cuba are true.
A majority of them are women from the North’s poorer northern regions. But the number of highly educated North Koreans with professional jobs escaping to South Korea has steadily increased recently. In 2023, about 10 North Koreans categorized as members of the country's e...
mostly since the late 1990s. A majority of them are women from the North’s poorer northern regions. But the number of highly educated North Koreans with professional jobs escaping to South Korea has steadily increased recently.
Escaping North Korea is a journey that is almost always a perilous one — thousands of miles on buses or motorcycles or sneaking on foot through mountains and valleys amid falling snow or torrential rain — in the desperate quest to evade border police and reach the frontier of a new l...
Escalating tensions in the Peninsula may force voluminous North Koreans to leave the country, although relevant information is limited. China has refused to grant North Korean escapees the refugee status, because the main reason of their departure, economic hardship, is not prescribed in conventional...
SEOUL--South Korea’s military said Friday it had fired warning shots the previous day to repel North Korean soldiers who temporarily crossed the rivals’ land border for the third time this month. Meanwhile, an activists’ group said it flew more balloo
South Korea’s spy agency says a North Korea diplomat based in Cuba has defected to South Korea.
“There are soldiers in other units who have not been able to return home despite being old enough to be discharged from the military,” the source said. “But I also know that there are many soldiers who are considering escaping due to the long working hours that stretch into the nigh...
A North Korean guard post on the North's side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas is seen from South Korea's Odusan Unification Observatory in Paju on June 21, 2024.JUNG YEON-JE / AFP via Getty Images The South Korean civilian activists, led by North Korean defector...
find itself more vulnerable to North Korean infiltration and assault via land routes, while North Korea would worry about front-line soldiers and residents escaping to the South more easily, Lee said. Most North Korean refugees living in the South have fled via the less guarded border with ...