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Growing Pains for North Korean Defector Teens
Over a third of North Korean defector middle school students in South Korea do not feel pride in being South Korean citizens, a survey has found. Of the students polled in a study for the Korean...
View ArticleWhy North Koreans Won’t Be Fleeing South After Unification
In the event of unification or collapse of the North Korean government, the common line among most scholars is that hundreds of thousands of North Koreans will flee southwards in an attempt to join...
View ArticleWhy S.Koreans Aren’t Angry About N. Korean Human Rights Abuses
The road to the South Korean launch of Shin Dong-Hyuk’s memoir of his life inside a North Korean concentration camp has been a long one. His account is the harrowing story of a boy born in the...
View ArticleNorth Korean society: Two classes, too little reason to resist
SEOUL – North Korean society can essentially be divided into two groups, a young defector has said, and both groups have reasons for not publicly opposing the regime. Lee Seong-min, 26, fled North...
View ArticleTreat North Korean defectors as individuals, teacher says
SEOUL – Young North Korean defectors are individuals with different traits, and South Korean public education should treat them as such, a volunteer who has worked with them said. Toronto native...
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The migration mission: How Christians shape the defection process
Like it or not, Christians play an especially large role in the lives of North Korean defectors. North Korea holds a special place in the hearts of both South Korean and Korean-American Christian...
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From satellites to novels: New names in North Korean studies, part 3
This is the third installment of the NK News feature dedicated to innovative, new and lesser-known authors. This week we present scholars who have described North Korea by approaching alternative...
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