Within and beyond China, remarkable heroes extend the escape networks into numerous Asian countries as they work to send North Korean escapees to freedom in South Korea and beyond. These heroes ...

Author Melanie Kirkpatrick discussed her book, [Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad]. Among the topics she addressed were the impact of U.S. sanctions and ...

Jörn Petring—Picture-Alliance/AP North Korean soldiers parade through Kim Il Sung Square with their missiles and rockets during a mass military parade, on Oct. 10, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

At the time, I was desperately searching for a way to write about life inside North Korea. I quickly flew to Seoul and met Shin there for lunch in December, 2008. That meeting is detailed in the book.

In recent years, a mini-surge of books, articles, documentaries, TV shows, and websites has presented refugees' stories about life in North Korea. These have given the world an unprecedented ...

How to Survive shares ten strange survival lessons from people who escaped North Korea, revealing unexpected tactics and ...

Escaping North Korea in 2024 has never been more difficult, with strict government controls, high-tech surveillance, and near ...

The book chronicles the life of North Korean defectors as they made the journey to escape. (Photo courtesy of Heidi Tucker) “I think three things can happen when you read this book,” Tucker said.

Earlier this year, Mr Kim pulled off a seemingly impossible escape from North Korea. He fled by sea with his entire family - his pregnant wife, his mother, his brother's family, and an urn ...

Human Rights Watch states the case very clearly: North Korea “remains one of the most repressive countries in the world.” In a 2022 report, the nonprofit said, “The North Korean government ...

“Beyond Utopia,” an eye-opening thriller that captures a family’s desperate and dangerous escape from North Korea, is one of the year’s most acclaimed documentaries, winning an audience ...

When Covid struck, North Korea's government panicked and sealed the country off from the rest of the world, closing its borders and cutting off trade. Defections, once fairly common, virtually ceased.