North and South Korea may share history and ethnicity, but today they couldn’t be more different. This analysis explains the deep structural contrasts — from economy to infrastructure — that shape the ...

Japan High Court Finds Pyongyang Lured People to Life of Hardship Between 1959 and 1984, approximately 93,000 ethnic Koreans (Zainichi) and Japanese migrated from Japan to North Korea under the so ...

More rally for North Korea's human rights in Seoul on December 9, 2011. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) ... ethnicity, or religion.

Just 67 North Korean defectors arrived last year. Inter-Korean dialogue and exchange have ground to a halt. Seoul's Unification Ministry has a new, hawkish head who wants to change the agency's role.

The parents of filmmaker Yang Yonghi, activists in a pro-North association of Japanese Korean residents, sent Yonghi's three brothers to live in North Korea when they were still in their teens.