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The man at the center of a storm currently brewing in Liaoning Province, NKnet researcher Kim Young Hwan has long been a victim of threats emanating from

A South Korean Foreign Ministry official says the arrest of four South Korean human rights activists in China has become a diplomatic conflict between Seoul and Beijing. The ministry

For the past several weeks, four South Korean activists have been detained by China in the northeastern city of Dalian, according to a statement from South Korea's

Following the shock revelation on Monday that North Korea human rights activist and researcher Kim Young Hwan has been in detention in China for almost 50 days,

The issue of forced repatriation of defectors which recently burst onto the international agenda “amplified international interest in North Korean human rights,” according to Hyun Byung Chul,

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry says it has made no progress towards the release of four South Korean activists detained in China. Kim Young-hwan and three other South Korean's advocating

We continue our conversation with Shin Dong-hyuk and hear why Shin came to the end of his endurance and decided to risk everything to escape. It very nearly

If you check the news from the weekend, you'll notice that North Korea is back in the headlines as its neighbours China, Japan, South Korea fret over its

Myanmar has agreed to release a North Korean defector imprisoned two years ago for entering the country illegally and declared its intention to comply with all UN