Tag: forced repatriation

Rumors that China may soon issue permanent residency ID cards to North Korean defectors are spreading rapidly across the country's northeast. The rumors have...

North Korea revised its criminal procedure law in 2022 and again in 2025. The changes shortened detention and investigation periods. They also required defense...

The sky over Kyiv hung heavy and gray during the days I spent in Ukraine's capital. Standing before the outer wall of a prisoner...

North Korea's National Intelligence Agency, the country's primary domestic intelligence agency formerly known as the Ministry of State Security, has issued sweeping new directives...

Chinese police are recruiting North Korean defectors living in China as informants and using them to infiltrate defector escape networks, leading to the arrest...

Chinese police have sharply intensified surveillance of North Korean defectors living in China, summoning and interrogating entire social networks whenever a single individual goes...

North Koreans living in China without legal status are growing increasingly anxious as signs emerge of a broader thaw in relations between Pyongyang and...

North Korean defectors living in China are reportedly gripped by fear after police in their neighborhoods began making repeated visits to photograph them, sources...

Two North Korean defector women who exchanged WeChat messages about reaching South Korea were arrested by Chinese police in early February and remain in...

The release of interviews with North Korean soldiers captured as prisoners of war on the Ukrainian battlefield is causing shockwaves. I found the testimonies of...