​Kim Seongmin, Defector Who Pierced North Korea by Radio, Dies at 63

As a military propagandist, he fled the North by jumping off a train. In the South, he broadcast forbidden outside news to isolated North Koreans.

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Valery Panov, Ballet Star Who Fought to Leave the U.S.S.R., Dies at 87

Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.

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Syrians Recount Gas Attack Under Assad as They Seek Justice

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.

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Syrians Recount Gas Attack: Choking, Shaking, Foaming at the Mouth

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.

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Kim Shin-jo, North Korean Commando Who Sought to Kill South Korea’s Leader, Dies

Kim Shin-jo famously said the mission of a hit squad sent by Pyongyang in 1968 was to “slit the throat” of the then South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee.

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Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86

While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles.

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South Korean Officials Convicted Over Forcibly Sending North Koreans Home

The case of two North Korean fishermen, who murdered 16 compatriots before they sought asylum, has become a political minefield in the South.

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