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In late January, a 13-year-old girl and her older brother arrived at Romero House, a refugee centre in Toronto’s west end. It is their last known destination in an

by Mary Ormsby and Leslie Scrivener, Toronto Star, 30 April 2012 Three unidentified North Korean immigrants in a Toronto church (Photo by Aaron Harris, Toronto Star) The three North Korean women

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Inside North Korea With Hwang Jang Yop NK Democratization 16 Years in North Korea Zoom in Kim Jong Il

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is to send a letter calling on North Korea to provide more details about the fate of Shin Suk-ja, a

By Evan RamstadThe saga of Oh Kil-nam’s misguided venture into North Korea in the 1980s and the destruction it brought to his family took another sad twist

North Korea says the wife of Oh Kil-nam, a South Korean whose bizarre adventure in North Korea shone light on the viciousness of the regime, has died

North Korea wrote to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on April 27 claiming the wife of Oh Kil-nam, a South Korean who was

North Korea has notified the United Nations that the wife of a defector living in South Korea has died but the husband says he doesn't believe their