A lone North Korean crossed the inter-Korean military demarcation line into South Korea on Thursday night, the South's ...

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

South Korean authorities are investigating the incident, which comes amidst heightened tensions between the two countries ...

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

A concrete slab marking the Military Demarcation Line is pictured from the North Korean side of the Joint Security Area. (Aaron Kidd/Stars and Stripes) This story has been corrected.

A North Korean who crossed the heavily fortified land border into the South has been detained and taken into custody, Seoul’s ...

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

SEOUL, July 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military said Friday it has taken into custody a North Korean individual who crossed ...

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of the military demarcation line and conducted a “guiding operation ...