PYONGYANG, North Korea, June 4 (UPI) -- North Korean officials have banned observers from the espionage trial of two U.S. journalists, officials said.
BEIJING, April 30 (UPI) -- China has reopened its border with North Korea to tourists, officials said.
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- North Korean defectors often have a difficult time adjusting to the capitalist economy in South Korea, a human rights group says.
YANGON, Myanmar, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Myanmar authorities say they have released 19 North Korean defectors detained last month as they tried to flee to South Korea.
SEOUL, April 10 (UPI) -- North Korean defectors in South Korea launched a unified political body Tuesday to fight dictatorship in their communist homeland.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- About 20 North Korean border guards suspected of taking bribes to help defectors to China have fled their posts and entered China, a report said Monday.
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Most North Korean defectors in South Korea believe their communist homeland will collapse within ten years, a government report said Wednesday.
SEOUL, July 28 (UPI) -- Some 220 North Korean defectors flew into South Korea Wednesday through an unidentified Southeast Asian country, following a group of 230 the day before.
SEOUL, July 27 (UPI) -- About 200 North Korean asylum seekers arrived in South Korea Tuesday, becoming the single largest group allowed to defect to the South.
