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

N Korean detained after crossing DMZ, Seoul says DEFECTOR: The North Korean man, likely a farmer near the DMZ, risked a deadly escape, and might have been motivated by new inter-Korean dynamics, an ...

Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, but defections across the land border are relatively rare.

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

South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed reports on Monday that it plans to repatriate six North Koreans who were rescued ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two ...

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