Even under heavy surveillance, defectors have taken to the skies to escape North Korea. In 1953, Lt. No Kum-sok flew a Soviet MiG-15 jet to Gimpo Air Base in South Korea, a story later chronicled ...

The stories of defectors who fled the brutal North Korean regime are told in a new documentary, which sheds light on the reality of their nerve-shredding journeys to safety. Beyond Utopia: Escape ...

In an interview last week, President Trump called Kim Jong Un a "smart guy" and said he would reach out to the North Korean ...

South Korea considers those living in North Korea as its own citizens and extend protection to the North Koreans who escape from North Korea. As of January 2025, more than 34,000 North Korean escapees ...

South Korea 's Yonhap News Agency said North Korea might be using a vertical cold-launch system to fire the missiles. The ...

Capturing the escape on camera involved intricate logistics ... they had just escaped from North Korea, a country with no documentary culture, so they could not exactly have given informed ...

a down on her luck amusement park employee who was seemingly forced to leave her family behind during an escape from North Korea. Living out of her car, No-eul spends her days sweating in a full ...

SEOUL--A senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba defected to South Korea in November, a South Korean newspaper said on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to escape to ...