After taking a bow and making an offering of fruit and a dried fish, Ryh Jae-hong tosses a cup of alcohol towards the thick barbed-wire fence that protects South Korea's Gyodong Island from North ...

To the editor: Today is Save North Korean Refugees Day. It marks the 43rd anniversary of the People's Republic of China becoming a signatory to the Refugee Convention, which guarantees that countries ...

The West has largely fixated on images of nuclear test sites, but a more fundamental engine of the Kim Jong-un regime remain unchallenged: A domestic system of terror that is different from the Soviet ...

Below the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas, a few North Korean refugees still live almost as close as they can get to their home towns. During and after the Korean War thousands of ...

Telescopes are the only way refugees on South Korea's Gyodong Island can see the place they once called home - Copyright AFP ANTHONY WALLACE Telescopes are the only ...