A North Korean man crossed the DMZ on foot before midnight Thursday, asking South Korean troops for help in a rare defection ...

A North Korean man has crossed the heavily fortified demilitarized zone to the South. The apparent defection is unusual because most people escape via China, not the heavily guarded border separating ...

The North Korean economy largely relies on production of coal, concrete and industrial plastics, and has been kept afloat by ...

FILE - Children skate around the Kim Il Sung Square on Sunday, July 21, 2013, downtown Pyongyang, North Korea. With a U.S. soldier crossing the border into North Korea at the border town of ...

Recently captured satellite images reveal that North Korea has cleared a 1.8-mile strip of land extending into the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the 2.5-mile-wide boundary separating North and South ...

Korea: a land divided. North and South Korea are deeply divided by more than just the heavily fortified border. While still sharing a common language and heritage, the two countries have become ...

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of ...

Approximately 11,000 North Korean soldiers were initially sent to Russia last year, along with munitions and artillery shells. South Korea estimates that approximately 4,000 of those North Korean ...

North Korean land mines could be swept into South Korea by swelling rivers, South Korea’s military warned, as the North places tens of thousands of the deadly explosives along its heavily ...

SEOUL, South Korea-- The American-led U.N. Command in South Korea on Tuesday accused North Korea of planting land mines near a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two ...