All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid capture, one former soldier told NBC News.

The number of North Korean defectors who arrived in South Korea reached 236 in 2024, up by 20.4 percent compared to the ...

One defector said soldiers were given just three bullets each during the rare shooting drills. Read more at straitstimes.com.

But Lee Chul Eun is one of them. 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 ...

For the first time, the K-pop industry welcomes defected North Korean artists into a boy band, 1Verse, breaking barriers and ...

North Korean conscripted soldiers endure brutal conditions, grappling with severe shortages of essentials — from bullets for ...

Yu Hyuk was just nine years old when he started begging on the streets of North Hamgyong, one of the poorest provinces in ...

South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday that two North Korean soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region ...

as the regime targets the families of defectors for punishment including isolation and forced labor. President Volodymyr Zelensky: "In addition to the first captured soldiers from North Korea ...