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Planned For 10 Years, Out In 2 Hours: How Family Of 9 Escaped North Korea
A North Korean family of nine executed a decade-long escape plan in just two hours, sailing across the Yellow Sea to freedom, though tragedy struck months later when the younger brother who made it all possible died in an accident.
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Kim Seong-Min, Whose Broadcasts Relayed Foreign News To North Korea, Dies
Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about the truth of their authoritarian government, has died.
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South Korean Pastor Hailed As Hero, Jailed For Molesting Teen Refugees
A South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for helping North Korean defectors escape to safety has been jailed for sexually abusing minors, CNN reported.
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2 N Korea Teens Sentenced To 12 Years Of Hard Labour For Watching K-Pop
Video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 years' hard labour for watching K-pop.
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Boat Carrying Suspected North Korean Defectors Stopped By South Korea
South Korean authorities on Tuesday detained a North Korean boat carrying people believed to be seeking to defect from the isolated country, the military said.
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North Korean Defectors Sue Kim Jong Un In Tokyo Over Repatriation
North Korean defectors in Tokyo symbolically summoned Kim Jong Un to court on Thursday over a repatriation programme they describe as "state kidnapping".
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North Korean Defector Undetected For Hours After Daring 6-Hour Swim To South
A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world's most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught only after apparently falling asleep.
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N. Korea Soldiers "Poured Oil Over Body, Burnt It": Seoul Decries Killing
North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burned his body as a coronavirus precaution after he was interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials said Thursday.
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Defectors Launch Anti-North Korean Balloons Near Border
Balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets were launched towards North Korea, a defector-led activist group said Tuesday, a move likely to provoke fury north of the border.
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North Korean Army "Fully Ready" For Action Against South Korea
North Korea's army is ready to take action if defector groups push ahead with their campaign to send propaganda leaflets into North Korea, state media said on Tuesday, in the latest warning of retaliatory measures.
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Planned For 10 Years, Out In 2 Hours: How Family Of 9 Escaped North Korea
A North Korean family of nine executed a decade-long escape plan in just two hours, sailing across the Yellow Sea to freedom, though tragedy struck months later when the younger brother who made it all possible died in an accident.
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Kim Seong-Min, Whose Broadcasts Relayed Foreign News To North Korea, Dies
Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public about the truth of their authoritarian government, has died.
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South Korean Pastor Hailed As Hero, Jailed For Molesting Teen Refugees
A South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for helping North Korean defectors escape to safety has been jailed for sexually abusing minors, CNN reported.
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2 N Korea Teens Sentenced To 12 Years Of Hard Labour For Watching K-Pop
Video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 years' hard labour for watching K-pop.
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Boat Carrying Suspected North Korean Defectors Stopped By South Korea
South Korean authorities on Tuesday detained a North Korean boat carrying people believed to be seeking to defect from the isolated country, the military said.
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North Korean Defectors Sue Kim Jong Un In Tokyo Over Repatriation
North Korean defectors in Tokyo symbolically summoned Kim Jong Un to court on Thursday over a repatriation programme they describe as "state kidnapping".
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North Korean Defector Undetected For Hours After Daring 6-Hour Swim To South
A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world's most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught only after apparently falling asleep.
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N. Korea Soldiers "Poured Oil Over Body, Burnt It": Seoul Decries Killing
North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burned his body as a coronavirus precaution after he was interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials said Thursday.
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Defectors Launch Anti-North Korean Balloons Near Border
Balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets were launched towards North Korea, a defector-led activist group said Tuesday, a move likely to provoke fury north of the border.
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North Korean Army "Fully Ready" For Action Against South Korea
North Korea's army is ready to take action if defector groups push ahead with their campaign to send propaganda leaflets into North Korea, state media said on Tuesday, in the latest warning of retaliatory measures.
