UN's North Korean human rights official to visit Seoul next week — Radio Free Asia
Tomas Ojéa Quintana will work with several South Korean organizations to compile data on conditions in the North
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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.