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The ‘1st North Korean PhD’, Ahn Chan Il has joined the supreme council of the newly formed K-Party, making him the first defector to enter the world

The North Korean authorities have advised traders, exchange students and other workers based in China to return to the North for Kim Jong Il’s birthday.One such North

SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- About 20 North Korean defectors being detained in China are said to be facing repatriation to their communist homeland by the Chinese police.

Canada’s immigration office reportedly gave 117 North Korean defectors refugee status last year.This is a huge jump from issuing refugee status to one North Korean in 2007,

By Kyle BurtonContributing writer TORONTO, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) - Hundreds of years after European migrants traveled to North America seeking refuge and opportunity, groups of North Korean defectors

A third of young North Korean defectors in the South weren’t actually born in the North but in China or another country, according to a local report. The government

Defectors wonder if South Koreans use the term democracy fighters properly as some employ it to refer to pro-North Korean activistsBy Kang Hyun-kyungNorth Korean defectors confronted some

The number of people belonging to separated families in South Korea dropped over the last year from over 82,000 to less than 80,000.The number of separated family

By Song Gyung-hwa Lee Jang-gil (assumed name, 24) washes dishes at a restaurant. On June 18, 2011, he got home late at 11 o’clock and immediately dialed