Until the 1990s South Korea, fearing a North Korean land invasion, banned any urban development between Seoul and the border ... illegally to reunite families split between north and south ...

The DMZ is split in two, with each side controlled ... Korea" and to spot "defectors who attempt to cross the border to South Korea." “It is unusual to build structures in the DMZ and may ...

Every day since July last year, loudspeakers on the other side of the inter-Korean border have been blaring haunting noises or loud crackly ones, like a gong being beaten or metal grinding.

North Korean troops have been deployed to bolster Russian forces in the Kursk border region with Ukraine, where they are ...

Separately, Ukraine revealed more details about the first two North Korean soldiers it has captured alive and said it was ...

Tour operators said Thursday that North Korea had reopened a border city to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. North Korea shut ...