Until the 1990s South Korea, fearing a North Korean land invasion, banned any urban development between Seoul and the border. Paju is the result of that ban’s relaxation: an impressive city of ...

South Korea's military said the explosions had not caused any damage on its side of the border, but the roads were "seen as symbolic of efforts to improve ties and, eventually, reunite the ...

Foster Klug, the news director for Korea and Japan, mined the opportunity by writing about the surreal Korean border village where the incident occurred — a place that exudes both a carnival ...

But this can be traced back to the original purpose of the JSA ... pile of leaves against a low wall close to South Korea's Freedom House. One border guard gave chase, before stopping abruptly ...

It comes just days after North Korea appeared to send at least 200 balloons carrying rubbish over the border in retaliation for propaganda leaflets sent from the south. South Korea's defence ...

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 ...

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.

The suspension allows South Korea to restart live-firing exercises and anti-Pyongyang propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at border areas, actions that are certain to enrage North Korea and prompt ...