SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier crossed the border into South Korea early Tuesday in the latest defection amid Seoul’s propaganda campaign in response to Pyongyang’s s repeated launches of trash-carrying balloons. The South Korean military detected the soldier from north of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) within the Demilitarized Zone [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine North Korean workers dispatched to Russia for dollar earnings defected to South Korea late last year amid Moscow’s protracted war with Ukraine, according to a professor in the South on Wednesday. The North Koreans, all men aged between 20s and 50s, came to the South in December 2022 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday said defections by North Korean officials indicate that internal insecurity has increased in the communist country as the reclusive country’s leader Kim Jong-un is strengthening his iron-fisted rule. Seoul’s unification ministry said that a series of defections by North Koreans are taking place at a [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The defection of a Britain-based North Korean diplomat has received worldwide media coverage, yet again spotlighting the level of desperation and freedom sought out by the citizens living under one of world’s most oppressive regimes. And although defection to South Korea may be a dream-come-true for many North Koreans, [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said Tuesday that a small number of North Korean restaurant staff have recently escaped their workplace in China. The confirmation comes a day after local media reported two or three North Koreans are moving to a third country after fleeing a Pyongyang-run restaurant in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A growing number of North Korean key party and military officials has been fleeing the communist country to evade leader Kim Jong-un’s reign of terror, a source familiar with North Korean affairs said Monday. Kim has purged or executed many North Korean officials, Seoul’s intelligence agency earlier said, putting [...]