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

A North Korean man who crossed the inter-Korean border earlier this month has expressed a clear intent to defect to the South ...

The unarmed individual was located on Thursday in the central-west section of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), before being guided ... signs of unusual military activity in North Korea, the South Korean ...

A North Korean soldier crossed the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) late Wednesday night and defected to South Korean forces, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. The ...

North Korea fires 2 missiles amid US nuclear sub in South Korea, soldier crossing DMZ North Korean government is believed to be holding a US soldier after he crossed the Military Demarcation Line ...

A U.S. Army private who had just finished a stint in a South Korean detention facility crossed the border into North Korea "without authorization" and is in custody in the secretive country ...

Six North Korean soldiers in the past three years have run for a new life to South Korea by crossing the demilitarized zone, aka DMZ. Kim is one of those courageous young men in their 20s who ...

SEOUL—A North Korean defector swam south across the border, slipped through a drainage conduit, popped up on military cameras eight times and strolled down a barricaded road. Alarms blared twice.

Another North Korean soldier defected across the DMZ last September. In all, only five to 10 North Koreans have used that route to cross to the South since 2010, according to the Yonhap news agency.