On June 23, 2025, the story of a decorated military veteran allegedly forced by an ultimatum from Immigration and Customs ...

Prisoners of war held for decades after the fighting stopped. Civilian abductees. Defectors. Separated families. They are ...

Watching or distributing South Korean TV dramas or K-pop songs is being punished by execution by firing squad in North Korea, ...

This photo of BE BOYS' Hakseong, a defector from North Korea, is screenshot from his X posting. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) ...

Former North Korean soldiers spoke with ABC News about their military service. SEOUL -- A former sergeant in the North Korean military says that few of Pyongyang's soldiers have been captured ...

Lee Chul Eun, 38, a North Korean defector and former soldier. ... said Ryu, who served in the North Korean military until 2019, when he escaped to freedom in South Korea. ...

Lee, 38, a North Korean defector and former soldier now living in South Korea, said it is “devastating” to see troops from the reclusive, communist-ruled North being sent abroad by leader Kim ...

Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers march during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on September 9, 2018. A group of North Korean defectors handed Ukrainian officials propaganda ...

North Korean military officers march during a welcoming ceremony, on June 19 in Pyongyang. Almost 200 North Korean defectors are willing to join Ukraine's fight against Russia as North Korean ...

“We are all military veterans who understand North Korea’s military culture and psychological state better than anyone else,” Ahn Chan-il, a 69-year-old defector and member of the group ...