Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, but ...

South Korean troops detain unarmed North Korean man after rare border crossing amid rising inter-Korean military tensions ...

The incident comes after a North Korean soldier defected to the South by crossing the MDL in August last year. Also last year ...

A North Korean civilian volunta­rily crossed the heavily mined land border between the two countries, aided by the South's military in a delicate 20-hour operation, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

A North Korean civilian was taken into custody by South Korean forces early Thursday after making a rare defection across the ...