North Korea will deport a U.S. citizen detained since October after he entered illegally from China and told his captors he was manipulated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the North Korean state news agency reported on Friday.

A North Korean defector spoke out about the horrors she experienced under the regime, tearfully explaining she was forced to have an abortion when she was three months pregnant.

International sanctions against North Korea are harming ordinary civilians, according to the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea.

There are an estimated 200,000 people, including children, imprisoned in North Korea, according to a report by the UN Commission of Inquiry’s on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Canadian citizen, Hyeon Soo Lim headed to North Korea in 2015 for a humanitarian mission. Months later he was imprisoned for trying overthrow Kim Jong Un’s authoritarian regime.