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

A heavily armed border. Hostile invasion tunnels. Giant flags beating their chests. A gift shop. A rewilding area.

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.

An unidentified North Korean man crossed into South Korea with the assistance of Seoul’s military through a heavily mined land border Thursday. He was taken into custody after the crossing, ...

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

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

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 ...

Seoul, South Korea — An unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas and ...

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

A North Korean defector dodged a shoot-on-sight order, armed guards, and dozens of land mines to cross one of the most ...

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