Choi and others have also highlighted what appears to be a stepped-up effort by China to find and return defectors to North ...

Kyiv "could secure mass surrender and defection among North Korean soldiers if proactive psychological warfare is mobilized," ...

These materials were produced by former North Korean military personnel who have defected and mothers of defectors who had ...

Nearly all would raise their hands to go, ex-military defectors explain, owing to regime loyalty, promise of higher status ...

Escaped North Koreans have sent a terrifying warning to the thousands of young soldiers being ... Kang Mi-Jin, a defector who runs a company analyzing North Korea’s economy, said even family ...

Almost 200 North Korean defectors ... of those soldiers have already moved closer to Ukraine," Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said in a briefing on Monday. The U.S. is "increasingly ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned North Korea could "soon" have as many as 12,000 soldiers on Russian soil, while US President Joe Biden slammed the deployment as "very dangerous".

In a unique development, around 200 North Korean defectors in South Korea ... Last week, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that North Korean soldiers are already on the frontlines ...

North Korea has sent thousands of soldiers to Russia as the alliance between the countries deepens, and they appear to be headed to the front lines of the Ukraine war. The US said last week it had ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 ... the deployment of North Korean soldiers in Ukraine. There will be no limitations on the use of U.S.-provided weapons on those forces, ...

The defectors can leverage their military expertise and understanding of the culture of their compatriots to disrupt and weaken the resolve of North Korean soldiers on the battlefield. This picture ...

Drawing on their military backgrounds, this band of ex-soldiers ... North Korea’s military culture and psychological state better than anyone else,” Ahn Chan-il, a 69-year-old defector ...