Park Gil-sung is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of Social Research at Korea University. Moon Chun-sang is former Program Officer at The Asia Foundation Korea office. The image of ...

Korean reunification activists say human rights progress hinges on regime change, calling for “bottom-up” change towards unification and greater cross-border mobility.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Walking through the Korean War Memorial in Washington, Grace Jo remembers a pivotal point in her childhood in North Korea, what she calls "the almost dying moment." On the brink ...

Ahead of the US President Donald Trump’s meeting with his American counterpart, Xi Jinping, US lawmakers wrote a bicameral ...

When Geumseong's phone rang on Christmas Eve 2020, he answered nervously. The previous year he'd made the perilous journey to escape from North to South Korea, using an international underground ...

After taking a bow and making an offering of fruit and a dried fish, Ryh Jae-hong tosses a cup of alcohol towards the thick barbed-wire fence that protects South Korea's Gyodong Island from North ...

To the editor: Today is Save North Korean Refugees Day. It marks the 43rd anniversary of the People's Republic of China becoming a signatory to the Refugee Convention, which guarantees that countries ...

Below the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas, a few North Korean refugees still live almost as close as they can get to their home towns. During and after the Korean War thousands of ...

Telescopes are the only way refugees on South Korea's Gyodong Island can see the place they once called home - Copyright AFP ANTHONY WALLACE Telescopes are the only ...