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

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

A North Korean man who identified himself as a civilian crossed the heavily fortified military demarcation line between the ...

A North Korean man was taken into custody by the South Korean military after crossing the heavily fortified border between ...

The unarmed man was found in the central-west border section before being led to safety by South Korean troops.

The incident comes after a North Korean soldier defected to the South by crossing the MDL in August last year. Also last year ...

A North Korean civilian crossed the military border in the central-western frontline area between Yeoncheon and Paju, ...

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

South Korean troops detain unarmed North Korean man after rare border crossing amid rising inter-Korean military tensions ...

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

A North Korean civilian voluntarily crossed the heavily mined land border between the two countries, ... "Crossing the DMZ is an extremely dangerous act due to the presence of unmarked mines.