Ji Seong-ho, a North Korean defector who now serves as governor of North Hamgyong Province, sits in his office beneath portraits of former governors.
Now 36, she escaped on foot across the frozen Yalu river into China from her home in North Korea at the age of 17. For the next decade, she...
The opportunity arose for Hyeonseo Lee to get her mother and brother out, taking them on a long, extremely risky route through China to Laos or Thailand.
Hyeonseo Lee was born in North Korea and left for China in 1997. She now lives in South Korea and is an activist for North Korea refugees.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.
Ji Seong-ho, a North Korean activist and NED grantee who received the Oxi Courage Award in Washington, DC, on Oct. 26.
The author of The Girl With Seven Names shares her story of escape and of building a new life and identity in the South.
U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump sent a...
Ji Seong-ho, 35, a North Korean defector who appeared at President Trump's State of the Union address this week, is from Hoeryong, near the border with China.
Though many North Korean refugees have lived outside of their former totalitarian homeland for only a few years, that isn't stopping a...
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