SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas and is in South Korean custody, the South’s military said Friday. The ...

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, according ...

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

Since 1998, 32,147 North Koreans have arrived in South Korea, according to South Korea's Ministry of Unification. About three-quarters of those (73.1 percent) are under the age of 39.

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

During their service, the sisters heard stories of the North Koreans’ journeys to South Korea and their efforts to keep in limited contact with family and friends—utilizing Chinese phones and keeping ...

Zoom and other online tools were used by members of Aurora NK to help North Korean refugees in the United States and South Korea access clinics and mental health resources. (Photo courtesy of Aurora ...

South Korea's military said it is closely monitoring North Korean activities. South Korean soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, on ...

A South Korean scholar collects trash from North Korea to get a glimpse into the country's economy. Dong-A University professor Kang Dong Wan said the pandemic has made it even harder to see what ...

Onban, a traditional North Korean dish, is served at a restaurant on the second floor of the Kim Il Sung University foreign student dormitory, Pyongyang, North Korea, Sept. 29, 2018. Courtesy Alek ...

A senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba defected with his wife and child to South Korea in November, South Korean media reports said on Tuesday, the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to ...

Two weeks working with North Korean defectors opened the eyes of BC students Jieun and Jueun ... Three of the students the Lees taught over the summer visited Boston last week as part of a tour of U.S ...