BRUSSELS (JTA) — When guards dragged Shin Dong-hyuk from his North Korean cell in 1995, he was pretty sure the end was near. Dong-hyuk, then just 13, was born in the prison known as Camp 14, not ...

Shin Dong-hyuk was born in one of North Korea's notorious prison camps. He told us how he was tortured, and how he was forced to watch the execution of both his mother and his brother. Like you, we ...

And for North Koreans outside the camps, the fear of the gulag ensures their loyalty to a paranoid regime that's highly conscious of its own questionable long-term outlook. Even so, a combination ...

Rival political camps continued to clash on Sunday over whether acting President Choi Sang-mok should appoint Constitutional Court Justice nominee Ma Eun-hyuk. The ...