Monday
January 20, 2020
Gangnam-gu, South Korea
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The U.S. State Department on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the human rights situation in North Korea, vowing to continue efforts to allow residents in the regime to access independent information from abroad.
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification is pushing to inspect operations at dozens of groups registered as humanitarian organizations for North Korea, prompting activists to cry foul at what they claim is a crackdown from Seoul.
A 24-year-old defector’s recent escape to North Korea through a daring border crossing shed new light on the disillusionment many defectors face in South Korea, conditions that may have prompted several dozen boomerangs to the North...
A North Korean defector did return home several days ago, as claimed by Pyongyang Sunday, but whether he brought the coronavirus with him was not confirmed.
If a North Korean defector in his 20s really returned to the North across the border as Pyongyang claims, that’s a serious matter. We are dumbfounded that the military demarcation line is so porous. South and North Korea are separated...
If a North Korean defector in his 20s really returned to the North across the border as Pyongyang claims, that’s a serious matter. We are dumbfounded that the military demarcation line is so porous. South and North Korea are...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic, state media announced Sunday, reportedly after a defector to the South returned across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) last week carrying the virus.
The unification ministry revoked the operation permits of two North Korean defector groups Friday, saying their campaigns to send propaganda leaflets into the communist nation "gravely hindered" efforts toward unification.
South Korean police on Tuesday grilled two anti-Pyongyang civic leaders for sending propaganda leaflets into North Korea without permission -- a move that coincides with Seoul punishing activist groups provoking the North...
South Korean police on Friday raided the offices of North Korean defector groups accused of sending propaganda leaflets across the border into the North.
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