The organization liberates North Korean citizens and gives them the opportunities and resources they need to thrive outside of the country. The organization aids refugees’ treacherous 3,000-mile ...

At the same time, they often lack resources and access to legal aid, so we want to serve as the point where they can reach out and feel more comfortable going for help.” The legal aid department of ...

In a funding request issued earlier this month, the State Department requested more funding for assistance for North Korean refugees. According to NK News, the State Department has requested an ...

North Korea has received a total of US$2.38 million in international aid so far this year, all of it from Switzerland, United ...

North Korea continues to shun international humanitarian workers despite ongoing humanitarian needs in the country, U.N. officials say. Elizabeth Salmon, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in ...

China considers North Korean refugees to be economic migrants, and forcibly deports them back to North Korea – where, as alleged defectors, they face imprisonment, possible torture or worse ...

On Feb. 20, North Korea fired two more ballistic missiles off its east coast, ... For 14 years, I have been working on the ground as a humanitarian aid worker in North Korea.

(Yonhap Interview) UN refugee official SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- A top official at the U.N. refugee agency called on South Korea to boost humanitarian aid to help the refugee crisis in East ...

This school is supposed to prepare North Korean defectors for the real world. But some say it does little to help – and the system needs an overhaul.

The Chinese government forcibly returned about 60 North Korean refugees on April 26, putting them at grave risk of enforced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, wrongful imprisonment, forced ...