SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It's 3:11 p.m. on a cold, gray day on the North Korean side of the most heavily armed border in the world, and a lone soldier is racing toward freedom. His dark olive-green ...
Escaping North Korea is a desperate sprint through darkness, where a single misstep can mean a bullet or a prison camp. Defectors cross rivers patrolled by soldiers ordered to fire without hesitation, ...
The story of a North Korean defector who repeatedly crossed the border to care for his mother has sparked widespread attention after being revealed. On the 19th, online communities revisited the ...