» by GI Korea April 7th, 2012 at 3:16 am » Comments (1)

It must have felt like living in jail for three years but hopefully the wait was worth the escape from North Korea: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="240" caption="Baek Yeong-ok, center, poses with ...more »

» by GI Korea March 18th, 2012 at 5:16 pm » Comments (20)

No matter what you think about the circumstances of how Laura Ling was detained in North Korea, I think we can all agree with her that we should support any ...more »

» by GI Korea March 12th, 2012 at 3:16 am » Comments (2)

Hopefully this is a book we will see printed in English soon as well: A North Korean woman documents her harrowing account of escaping from North Korea in her autobiography, which ...more »

» by GI Korea March 6th, 2012 at 1:03 pm » Comments (36)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="Racing models take part in a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on March 5, 2012, to demand Beijing scrap plans to repatriate ...more »

» by GI Korea February 25th, 2012 at 6:14 pm » Comments (18)

One Free Korea has a good posting up that provides some perspective on why the South Korean public is mostly indifferent in regards to the recent return of North Koreans ...more »

» by GI Korea February 24th, 2012 at 8:39 am » Comments (8)

Like I said when this issue first came up, the Chinese were not going to allow these refugees to go to South Korea: China has already sent back several of the ...more »

» by GI Korea February 14th, 2012 at 5:06 pm » Comments (2)

I don't think these North Korean defectors stand much of a chance of getting the Chinese authorities to release them to go to South Korea: A group of 10 North Korean ...more »

» by GI Korea December 9th, 2011 at 8:32 am » Comments (0)

It must have been pretty uncomfortable to be under what is pretty much house arrest for the past three years in a consulate building: The Japanese government has submitted a written ...more »

» by GI Korea November 24th, 2011 at 5:45 am » Comments (13)

It has to be tough to be one of the defectors from North Korea and try to make a new life in such a completely different and highly competitive South ...more »

» by GI Korea November 5th, 2011 at 11:03 pm » Comments (1)

It seems like defecting across the West Sea maritime border seems to be becoming a more popular means of defecting from North Korea: A group of 21 North Koreans was found ...more »