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Ministry shifts stance on deportation of North Korean fishermen

Three Americans have been released after being detained for months.

We are writing on behalf of 28 non-governmental organizations and coalitions, and four individuals from 6 different countries to urge your government to engage fully with the international community, and act in response to the dire human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by resuming South Korea’s co-sponsorship of the annual resolution on the matter at the 49th UN Human Rights Council.

Refugee rights groups say escapees face severe punishment upon repatriation.

National Database Center (PDN) in the state capital Nusantara (IKN), targeted to be realized in 2024, will later encourage the digital system-based ...

Tomas Ojéa Quintana will work with several South Korean organizations to compile data on conditions in the North

Prices fell dramatically during the pandemic but now used phones can cost more than $1,500.

SEOUL, South Korea — Not long after nightfall on New Year’s Day, a short, slight man picked a spot along one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world, a quarter-mile from the nearest platoon of soldiers, and scaled a 10-foot-tall wire fence.

Some of those who return become propaganda tools for the North Korean state, appearing in videos or news conferences making tearful statements about how much they regretted leaving.

While tens of thousands risk everything to flee North Korea, a few, having failed to adjust to the capitalist South, make a desperate journey back.