After taking a bow and making an offering of fruit and a dried fish, Ryh Jae-hong tosses a cup of alcohol towards the thick ...

To the editor: Today is Save North Korean Refugees Day. It marks the 43rd anniversary of the People's Republic of China becoming a signatory to the Refugee Convention, which guarantees that countries ...

North Koreans who fled to South Korea's Gyodong Island during the Korean war in the 1950s still pine for relatives in their ...

Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of ...

For the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago, this week is perhaps the best shot they’ve had in years of substantive progress.

But K-drama hits differently in North Korea compared to the rest of the world, wielding huge influence over the way people ...

The first trailer has been unveiled for “Hana Korea,” a North Korean refugee drama starring “Pachinko’s” Kim Minha, ahead of its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival. The trailer ...

Kenneth Bae, a 44-year-old American citizen, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in a North Korean gulag this week for "hostile acts" against the country and Kim Jong-Un's regime. Considering the ...

Refugees and other elderly people gather in Gyodong on festive days to sing old Korean ballads from the Japanese occupation of 1910-1945, at the tops of their voices. "These are songs that everyone, ...