South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed reports on Monday that it plans to repatriate six North Koreans who were rescued ...

South Korea’s military says an unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two ...

The mission to safely guide the man to the South involved a considerable number of South Korean troops and took around 20 ...

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

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

The Korean War broke out when a Soviet-backed, ... South Korean troops entering Seoul after Allied forces retook the South Korean capital in 1950.

SEOUL — Fifty years after he was taken ... in addition to 487 people who are listed by the South Korean government as having been abducted by North Korea after the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War.

Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 en route from New York to Seoul via Anchorage, veered off course and entered Soviet ...

Youngsoo wrote about this period in his book Korean Lives After the War, 1956–1960, saying: After the war, still covered with the soot of tragedy, I found myself in the middle of civic confusion.

Sept. 26, 1950 Seoul is taken by U.N. forces after two weeks of house-to-house fighting. MacArthur orders troops to continue chasing the retreating North Korean army across the 38th Parallel.

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

A North Korean civilian voluntarily crossed the heavily mined land border between the two countries, aided by the South's ...