A North Korean soldier crossed the heavily fortified border into South Korea on foot on Oct. 19, and several armed North Korean troops breached the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) that same day in ...

South Korean troops fired warning shots at two North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the fortified inter-Korean border not long after another soldier defected to the South in that area, South ...

A North Korean soldier involved in an extremely rare and dramatic defection to the South was shot six times by his own side as he drove to the heavily guarded border and ran across under a hail of ...

SEOUL (CNN) — A North Korean soldier who staged a daring break across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) into South Korea is on life support after almost two days of surgery. According to a detailed account ...

Shots were fired after a North Korean defector fled to the South on Thursday across the DMZ, the land border that divides the peninsula, South Korean military officials said. The “low-ranking” soldier ...

Crossing the inter-Korean “demilitarized zone”—ironically the most militarized zone on Earth—is extraordinarily dangerous on foot, but some North Korean conscripts attempt it anyway. Since the end of ...

A N. Korean defector in S. Korea pleaded with Chinese authorities to stop the forced repatriation of his mother, warning that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kim Kang, former deputy representative at the North Korean mission in Russia, on Wednesday called on international media and civic ...

The US-led United Nations Command (UNC), which monitors the Panmunjom border truce village where the defection occurred Monday... The US-led United Nations Command (UNC), which monitors the Panmunjom ...