A North Korean defector is set to file civil and criminal charges against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and four other Pyongyang officials for abuses she faced while detained in the country. Choi Min-kyung fled North Korea to China in 1997 but was forcibly repatriated in 2008. She said she was sexually abused and tortured after her return.

A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape prosecution A new book published in Japan has shed fresh light on the life of Ko Yong-hui,

Song Kum Hyok is accused of masterminding a scheme in which North Korean cyber operatives posed as U.S. remote IT workers for unwitting companies.

The Center for Human Rights Legal Support at the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) said Wednesday it will submit a civil complaint and a criminal complaint to the Seoul Central District Court and the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office,

The federal government has sanctioned alleged North Korean hacker Song Kum Hyok for illegal activities related to his participation in the Andariel hacking group.

Exports of luxury goods to North Korea are banned under U.N. sanctions but such items reportedly make their way into the country via diplomatic pouches.

Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned North Korean cyber actor Song Kum Hyok. Song enabled strategies for IT workers to obtain jobs at firms by utilizing fictitious identities.