Footage of North Korean soldiers in Russia have reopened concerns about malnourishment in the isolated country that appears to affect even its elite military units.
From the outside, Hanawon appears to be a school like any other, with its gable-roof, red-brick buildings perched on a verdant countryside road about an hour's drive south of Seoul.
Three female North Korean refugees on Monday opened up about their past and their thoughts about a future in South Korea during a rare media open day at Hanawon, a support center for defectors operated by Seoul's Unification Ministry.
Nine workers dispatched by North Korea to Russia defected to South Korea sometime between November and December last year, according to multiple sources on Tuesday.
The suspected boomerang defection of a man to North Korea on Saturday has raised new concerns that defectors in the South are not being properly cared for.
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap
