It has been said that everything is brand new to those who don’t know history. Earlier this year, I was interviewed live on ...

Instead of enjoying her new freedom ... Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has tightened its control over the border with China, the main escape route for defectors. And it has intensified its ...

And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk ... Maybe wearing earrings, because in North Korea we don't have any freedom. They tell us what to wear, what to listen ...

That curiosity led me to escape from North Korea,” Park said ... having no idea that humans have rights, what even freedom is,” Park said. “I know that many, many people are facing ...

On 27 January 2025, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) made a submission to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination (…) ...

And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk ... Maybe wearing earrings, because in North Korea we don't have any freedom. They tell us what to wear, what to listen ...

and found freedom and safety in Britain - now leading a wildly different life from her younger sibling. Just days after escaping North Korea, Cheol-ok was sold for marriage to a man 30 years her ...

All forms of freedom of expression are repressed and anyone ... Hear one defector tell her true story of escaping the horrors of life in North Korea only for the Chinese authorities to force her to ...

I decided to escape." On his first bid for freedom, the teenager crossed the Tumen River, part of the border between North Korea and China, with a family and guide. Crossing at night to avoid ...

“What ended up happening is I became more and more obsessed with what was going on in North ... of this escape.” The family endured 10-hour treks through the jungle to reach freedom.

They struck an uneven harmony singing the Korean classic “Arirang.” Every night, scenes such as this play out in cities across Asia, where North Korea operates restaurants that serve standard North ...

Even under heavy surveillance, defectors have taken to the skies to escape North Korea. In 1953 ... seen in other historic struggles for freedom, such as enslaved Black people in America escaping ...