» 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 13th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (12)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A group of Korean residents rallies near an office of the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver, Canada, on March 12, 2012, to demand Beijing scrap plans to ...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 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 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 »

» by GI Korea September 14th, 2011 at 7:32 am » Comments (0)

Here is a rare method of defection from North Korea: Nine people who say they are from North Korea arrived Tuesday in a black wooden boat off the western Japanese coast ...more »

» by GI Korea July 9th, 2011 at 3:41 am » Comments (10)

This is quite a surge in North Korean refugees which the article doesn't provide a reason for such a large increase: Authorities in northern Thailand are struggling to cope with a ...more »

» by GI Korea June 18th, 2011 at 3:53 am » Comments (12)

This article from the Chosun Ilbo made no sense to me: A seminar has found that North Korean defectors who have relocated to the South to build new lives for themselves ...more »