SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- This summer, the K-pop industry is seeing the debut of idol groups featuring members who are North Korean defectors. Hakseong, a defector from North Korea, took his first ...

The world of K-pop has fresh new faces: the band 1VERSE with a debut album and lead single, “Shattered.” The boy band has an improbable origin story that includes two North Korean defectors. Lisa ...

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‘Russia’s border does not end anywhere,” declared Vladimir Putin in 2016, and the statement soon appeared on billboards in Russian-occupied Ukraine. As Russian defectors have learned, the country’s ...

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In the shadow of what looks like Seoul’s colossal chrome space station, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, hundreds of defectors from North Korea gathered for lively celebrations on Sunday marking the first ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With two out of five of its members North Korean defectors, the K-pop group 1VERSE is breaking new ground as it debuts its single album Friday. The band represents an unusual ...

These defectors try to smuggle books, movies and music back across the border. Roughly 35 miles from the world's most fortified border, Jung Hoon Choi led a group of 20 fellow North Korean defectors ...