SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is operating four political prison camps, where up to 65,000 people are believed to be imprisoned and placed under forced labor, a report showed Friday. North ...

ONTARIO, CA — A Chinese national living in Ontario on an expired student visa was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in federal prison for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition, and other ...

North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency announced on Wednesday that its mysterious American captive, Kenneth Bae, has begun his 15-year sentence at a "special prison," which has Korea ...

A South Korean crypto exchange employee was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to recruit a military officer to ...

An analysis of satellite images suggests that at least one North Korean prison camp has been significantly expanded over the past decade, including since the death of former premier Kim Jong-Il. The ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea that he said were to be used for a surprise attack on ...

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A South Korean crypto exchange operator received four years in prison for espionage, working with a suspected North Korean ...

An Arizona woman has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison for participating in a fraud scheme that helped give remote jobs to North Korean information technology specialists at over 300 ...

A South Korean court on Monday handed a suspended sentence to a North Korean defector who attempted to cross the border back into the North last year using a stolen bus, according to local media. The ...

More than 75 members of the Georgetown community listened to harrowing testimony from three North Korean defectors at a panel hosted by the Truth and Human Rights in North Korea club Wednesday evening ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Dennis Rodman, the former NBA bad boy who has palled around with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, flew to Pyongyang on Tuesday on a trip he says he hopes will "open a door" ...