The division of Korea into North and South is the result of deep historical, political, and ideological conflicts that ...

This happened during a reporting trip to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, sometime in the early 2000s, before ...

Prisoners of war held for decades after the fighting stopped. Civilian abductees. Defectors. Separated families. They are ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

The Korean War began with a surprise invasion by North Korean forces, who crossed the 38th parallel in a full-scale assault ...

So the division at 38th parallel wasn’t necessarily a hard border. People were quite free to cross it. In fact, 1.6 million people did cross from North to South Korea at this time.

More than 1,000 Catholics gathered for a special Mass at Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul on the Sunday before the June 25 anniversary.