When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As the heir apparent to his father, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong Il was already quite powerful in the ...

These defectors try to smuggle books, movies and music back across the border. Roughly 35 miles from the world's most fortified border, Jung Hoon Choi led a group of 20 fellow North Korean defectors ...

Despite setbacks in efforts to spread outside news in North Korea, Lee Young-hyeon, a defector-turned-lawyer in South Korea, ...

South Korea has proposed talks with North Korea to clarify the rivals’ border line. South Korea says that North Korean ...