The pilot increased the helicopter's speed to about 160 mph from 130 to get the defector to ... The North Korean defector gained consciousness last week and asked if he had made it to South ...

Reading the North Korean soldiers’ writings brings Lee back to his prior life, where he once dreamed of becoming a pilot in ...

North Korean pilot No Kum-Sok, who later took the name Kenneth Rowe, at the Kimpo Air Base near Seoul after flying a MiG-15 across the border to defect in September 1953.

Rowe was surprised to learn an American General previously publicly offered a $100,000 reward to the first North Korean defector who could deliver an intact MiG fighter jet to the U.S.

Pilot of jet that crashed in China a defector? PLANE REPORTEDLY FROM NORTH KOREA Sources say he may have been trying to reach Russia. ... The pilot was killed in the crash, ...

The number of North Korean defectors reaching the South was 196 in 2023—triple the previous year but lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to Seoul's Ministry of Unification.

More than 34,000 North Korean defectors have arrived in South Korea since fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953, according to official data. In the past decade, roughly 30 have returned home .

A North Korean defector who escaped to the South more than a decade ago was detained after attempting to cross back into North Korea on a stolen bus, police said. The man drove about 800 meters on ...