South Korea's Unification Ministry said Tuesday it will begin using the term "North Korean migrants" starting Jan. 1 in ...

N. Korean defector groups on Monday urged S. Korea's Unification Ministry to halt its push to replace the official term for ...

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.

The National Defectors from North Korea Association expressed deep anger and regret over Minister of Unification Chung ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

When Il-yong Ju was a child, something strange would happen in his tiny village in rural North Korea every 25 December. "My ...

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.

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 ...