Chinese President Xi Jinping met with North Korean Cabinet Chief Pak Thae-song in Beijing on the 10th and said, “The youth of both countries should deeply remember the historical contributions of the ...

March 13 (UPI) --A high-profile North Korean defector running for a seat in the South Korean parliament condemned a fellow politician in his own party, following reports of disapproving remarks. Thae ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. South Korea's newest celebrity took an unusual route to the nation's TV ...

A child of the country’s elite, he was given privileged access to carefully selected British and American books and films, such as The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, to hone his English skills. It ...

Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Thae Yong-Ho airs at 2 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CET on CNN International. North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to the UK, who defected to South Korea in 2016, tells CNN ...

Dec. 29 (Asia Today) --Former People Power Party lawmaker Thae Yong-ho said Monday that North Korea is likely to build a nuclear-powered submarine before South Korea, citing Pyongyang's ability to ...

A former North Korean diplomat has won a parliamentary seat in South Korea’s swankiest district, four years after fleeing a London embassy and defecting to the South. Thae Yong-ho was Pyongyang’s ...

One of the most amazing pieces of news coming out of April 15 general election in South Korea wasn't that the ruling party won a super majority. Rather, it was that Thae Yong-ho, the most famous of ...

On April 15, the constituents of Seoul’s most affluent district in Gangnam elected a North Korean defector as their parliamentary representative in a general election held at the height of the global ...

A high-level North Korean defector has suggested it’s likely that Kim Jong Un has health issues of some kind, but cautioned against reading too much into conflicting reports on the status of the North ...