North Korea's highest court recently sentenced two American journalists to 12 years hard labor for attempting to report on the plight of North Korean refugees in China. Those refugees are fleeing ...

North Korean refugees are more in the dark,” Kim said. “They’re kind of scared to come out because of what could happen to them potentially, so we try to keep our work very discreet. At the same time, ...

There are also 325 North Korean refugees in Tumen city, 47 in Changbai county, 104 in Linjiang city in Jilin province, 180 in Dandong, and 64 in Shenyang in Liaoning province.

Six North Korean defectors -- the first refugees the U.S. has admitted from the totalitarian nation -- arrived in Southern California on Saturday bearing accounts of famine, ...

North Korean Refugees NPR's Rob Gifford reports that years of famine in North Korea have forced thousands of citizens to cross the border into China in order to survive. But Chinese officials have ...

North Korean refugees at South Korean schools face the immense dual challenge of discrimination (mostly based on their North Korean origin, but also on language and at times physical appearance) ...

North Korean refugees are once again endangered by China’s policies of forcible repatriation. Taking advantage of North Korea’s partially reopened border, China is believed to have deported ...

Escalating tensions with North Korea 05:50. The family was far from rich, but made enough trading in clothes, cheap electronics and DVDs of South Korean TV shows to count as middle-class.

Refugees who are forced back to North Korea face punishments that include torture, forced labor, long imprisonment, and even execution. The total number of North Koreans who have been returned to ...

The United Nations is calling on world governments to refrain from repatriating North Korean refugees. U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif said Monday that member ...

When Patrick Hekman viewed a movie about North Korean refugees last fall on Calvin's campus, he was moved to action. The event was sponsored by the college's chapter of LiNK, Liberty in North Korea, ...