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He famously said the mission of a hit squad sent by Pyongyang in 1968 was to “slit the throat” of the South Korean dictator ...

Punishments in North Korea are severe, extend to family members, with public executions still allowed, making escape difficult. Almost everyone has heard about the country of North Korea or the ...

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to ...

Eun-mi describes being arrested for using a ‘Chinese mobile phone’ to make an international call. She escaped North Korea in 2014. The government enforces harsh restrictions around the types of ...

Every year, hundreds of people make the perilous journey out of North Korea as they escape from the "hermit kingdom". But the number of defectors has been steadily dropping in recent years ...