Madeleine Gavin, like many readers, was haunted by the story of Hyeonseo Lee, a woman who fled North Korea with her family in the 1990s and documented their perilous journey in her bestselling 2016 ...

In “Beyond Utopia,” a Korean ministry has helped over 1,000 people escape the brutal regime. For pastor Seungeun Kim, accompanying North Korean defectors as they trek toward freedom through the jungle ...

North Korea. Your house is on fire. What do you try to rescue first? Your kids? Your pet? No, the first thing you reach for is the portrait of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un and his father and ...

North Korea is an earthly paradise – at least, that’s the fiction its people are fed from birth by their dictatorial government. The reality is far, far grimmer, almost unimaginably so. Just how ...

North Korean state broadcaster KCNA Central Television aired a documentary film less than 24 hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un returned from his visit to China. The broadcaster played the 50 ...

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