A North Korean soldier successfully defected to South Korea on Sunday, crossing the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone. The ...

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border on Sunday, South Korea’s military ...

A senior North Korean diplomat who defected two years ago painted a grim picture of life in the hermit kingdom as he ...

South Korea is planning to change the term “defectors” to describe North Koreans who flee the country to resettle in the South, as the word carries “negative connotation”.

Satellite images show that North Korea is constructing a roughly 6-mile-long anti-tank barrier along its border with South ...

It also made it nearly impossible to escape from the country, by tightening controls along the border with China ... including "a slight decrease in violence by guards". Russia's Putin, China's Xi and ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has lauded what he called his country’s fight against a U.S.-led military threat and vowed to ...

He has supported Russia’s war against Ukraine with ammunition and troops, and in return gained food, fuel, technology and the ability to play Russia off against China, North Korea’s other main patron.