North Korea's young dictator Kim Jong Un has gotten a lot of attention lately for testing nuclear weapons and long range missiles, and threatening to attack the United States if provoked.

Zhu Xianjian, a North Korean inmate who illegally entered China in 2013 and had since been convicted of a series of crimes, escaped from a prison in the northeastern city of Jilin.

Shin Dong-hyuk is the only person known to have been born in a North Korean prison camp and escaped to the West. In an excerpt from "Escape from Camp 14," Blaine Harden details his unlikely flight.

Shin is the only person known to have survived an escape from any of North Korea’s highly secretive prison camps. For the book, Shin told Harden he was born inside and lived his entire life in ...

Back in North Korea, they would be sentenced to years of hard labor in a prison camp. Their former boss, the Korean-Chinese owner of an Internet sex operation, was hunting them as well.

North Korea is the most secretive and repressive state on earth, a dystopian nightmare that makes George Orwell’s 1984 seem benign. News rarely leaks out. Censorship is total. But in A Thousand ...

News of Zhu’s escape drew wide public attention in China, where prison breaks are rare. A related hashtag on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, drew more than 22 million views, according to ...

Chinese authorities have offered a bounty equivalent to more than $23,000 for the capture of a North Korean defector who broke out of prison in the northeastern city of Jilin on Monday.