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

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

A North Korean man has crossed the heavily fortified demilitarized zone to the South. The apparent defection is unusual ...

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 man who identified himself as a civilian crossed the heavily fortified military demarcation line between the ...

The 30-minute call comes as Lee, a liberal from South Korea's Democratic Party, seeks to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. North-South relations are at their most strained in decades amid Kim's ...

The unarmed man was found in the central-west border section before being led to safety by South Korean troops.

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

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says that it remains unclear whether Seoul and Washington can conclude their tariff ...