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In this March 25, 2016 photo, exiled North Korean Gae-yoon Lee poses for a photo at her home in Seoul, South Korea. Lee, who was raised on a collective farm, left North Korea in 2010 with only a high school diploma. Six years later, she’s a published poet who often writes about her childhood and the famine, and is midway through a degree in Korean literature at one of Seoul’s top universities. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

They flee North Korea, only to be adrift in the South

By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Visitors look at a map of the Korean peninsula at the exhibition hall of the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. South Korea says it will suspend the operations at a joint industrial park with North Korea in response to the North's recent rocket launch. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ** FILE **

South Korea says North Korea fired short-range projectile

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

South Korea announces unilateral sanctions on North Korea

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

A man watches a TV news program showing a file footage of the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 3, 2016. North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, Seoul officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on Pyongyang in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. The screen reads " North Korea launched missiles." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea fires off rockets after U.N. imposes tough sanctions

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, in this Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

With woman running South Korea, North Korea’s insults get uglier

By Foster Klug and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

In this Dec. 19, 2013, file photo, North Korean workers assemble jackets at a factory of a South Korean-owned company at the jointly run Kaesong Industrial Complex, in Kaesong, North Korea. South Korea says Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, it will halt operations at joint industrial park with North Korea in response to the North's recent rocket launch. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Seoul’s spy service says North Korea is preparing attacks

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

A South Korean driver changes his vehicle number after returning from North Korea's joint Kaesong Industrial Complex at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.S. stealth jets fly over South Korea amid North Korea standoff

By Lee Jin-Man - Associated Press

U.S. Patriot missiles are deployed in South Korea to respond to North Korea's nuclear testing. (Associated Press)

U.S. deploys more Patriot missiles in South Korea

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

In this Dec. 19, 2013, file photo, North Korean workers assemble jackets at a factory of a South Korean-owned company at the jointly run Kaesong Industrial Complex, in Kaesong, North Korea. South Korea says Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, it will halt operations at joint industrial park with North Korea in response to the North's recent rocket launch. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP, File)

North Korea orders military takeover of inter-Korean factories

By Ahn Young-Joon - Associated Press

South Korean army soldiers watch a news program about North Korea's rocket launch Sunday at Seoul Railway Station. (Associated Press)

North Korea launches rocket; U.S. and South Korea formalize missile shield talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A drone is paraded in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Associated Press/File)

South Korea fires warning shots after North Korean drone seen

By KIM Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

People in Seoul, South Korea, walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility on Jan. 6. (Associated Press)

North Korea’s Kim boosts propaganda in praise of nuke test

By Foster Klug and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

People in Seoul, South Korea, walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility on Jan. 6. (Associated Press)

South Korea resumes anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts

By Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 27, 2013 file photo, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, and her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping wave during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping’s first visit to the Korean Peninsula as China’s president is to Seoul, not Pyongyang, meaning that North Korea’s best friend has snubbed it for its most bitter rival. A flurry of recent rocket and missile tests, the latest on Wednesday, has made the North’s displeasure crystal clear. (AP Photo/Wang Zhao, Pool, File) **FILE**

Inside China: Seoul seeks a border with Beijing

By Miles Yu

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, center, looks toward North Korea as South Korean Defense Minister Han Min Koo, left, briefs at an observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. (Korea Pool Photo via AP)

U.S., South Korea pledge to strengthen defenses against North

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

South Korean Suh Byung-gon, 82, is helped by a Red Cross official as he arrives to take part in family reunions with his North Korean family members at a hotel in Sokcho, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. About 640 other South Koreans will meet their North Korean relatives at the authoritarian country's scenic Diamond Mountain resort in a reunion program that begins Tuesday. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

Koreans celebrate reunions across DMZ, 1st in more than a year

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean President Park Geun-hye reviews the troops during a full military honors parade to welcome her, Thursday at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

Park Geun-hye of South Korea eyes alliance with U.S., China to address North Korea threat

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korean President Park Geun-hye must balance Seoul's alliance with Washington with being excluded from the TPP Pacific trade deal. (Associated Press)

Obama to host Park Geun-hye as South Korea’s growing ties to China threaten alliance

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 12, 2012, file photo, a screen at the General Satellite Control and Command Center shows the moment North Korea's Unha-3 rocket is launched in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea said Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, it is ready to launch satellites aboard long-range rockets to mark a key national anniversary next month, a move expected to rekindle animosities with its rivals South Korea and the United States. (AP Photo/File)

North Korea warns it has restarted all nuclear bomb fuel plants

By Hyung-jin Kim and Foster Klug - Associated Press

A man watches a TV news program reporting South Korea and North Korea reached an agreement, at the Seoul Railway Station, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea halts propaganda broadcasts as Koreas reach deal

By Hyung-jin Kim and Foster Klug - Associated Press