North Korean Defectors

North Korean Defectors

Emergency workers operate at an impact site in a residential neighbourhood after Russian drone and missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 28, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Peter

North Korean POWs in Ukraine seeking 'new life' in South

Previous reports have indicated that the two men, held captive by Kyiv since January after sustaining injuries on the battlefield, were seeking to defect to the South

Choi Min-kyong, a North Korean defector who said she was deported by China four times before making it to South Korea in 2012, and Shin Ju-ye, who fled North Korea in the 1990s and settled in China before defecting to South Korea last year, attend an interview with Reuters in Seoul, South Korea, July 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ju-min Park

'Fishing net': Police quotas, surveillance trap North Koreans in China