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 ...

North Korean defectors Yu Hyuk and Kim Seok made their K-pop debut Friday as members of 1Verse (pronounced as “universe”).

At a recent committee hearing, Rep. Young Kim discussed the ongoing threat posed by North Korea, stressing the importance of ...

In a quiet corner of Seoul’s Hyuga Cafe, a warm, honey-toned space nestled inside what once served as the dormitory for K-pop ...

SEOUL, South Korea — 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 ...

The man’s case is rare – while more than 10,000 North Korean defectors have arrived in South Korea in the past decade, just 30 have returned home, where they face the prospect of being put ...

South Korea President Lee Jae Myung and his administration's increasingly unilateral and unquestioning approach to North ...

During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) asked Undersecretary of State for ...

Though defectors had once numbered nearly 3,000 a year, they fell to just a few dozen in 2021 and 2022, due to pandemic restrictions and tighter border security in North Korea and China.

A small wooden boat is towed into a port in Yangyang, South Korea, on Tuesday. Four people believed to be North Korean defectors were found in the vessel near the two Koreas’ sea border.

A new K-pop boy band made their global debut on Friday with two members who defected from North Korea and an album that ...