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 first trailer has been unveiled for “Hana Korea,” a North Korean refugee drama starring “Pachinko’s” Kim Minha, ahead of its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival. The trailer ...

Following President Trump’s new warnings to Kim Jong Un’s nuclear threats, a woman who escaped North Korea 17 years ago is speaking out and making it her mission to support fellow refugees. Youngae Ma ...

North Koreans who fled to South Korea's Gyodong Island during the Korean war in the 1950s still pine for relatives in their former home. Unable to visit their loved ones' graves, they perform funeral ...

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 ...