By Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul (CNN) — A North Korean defector who escaped to the South more than a decade ago was detained after attempting to cross back into North Korea on a stolen bus, police ...

The defector, 35, was caught at 12:55 a.m. Monday on the Tongil Bridge, or Unification Bridge, in Paju city, by South Korean military guards and turned over to civilian police, according to ...

The incident took place at around 1:30 a.m. (16:30 GMT on Monday) at the Tongil Bridge in Paju, northwest of the capital Seoul, after the man ignored warnings from soldiers guarding the bridge and ...

A South Korean soldier sets a barricade at a checkpoint on the Tongil bridge, the road leading to North Korea’s Kaesong joint industrial complex, near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two ...

Vehicles carrying U.N. flags arrive Sunday at a checkpoint on Tongil Bridge leading to Panmunjom, at the entrance to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, in Paju.