“The North Korean government used purported Covid-19 measures to further repress and endanger the North Korean people,” said Lina Yoon, senior Korea researcher at Human Rights Watch.

North Korea spent much of the pandemic reinforcing and building a huge border wall to close off its frontiers with China and Russia — and prevent defectors from leaving the hermit kingdom.

North Korea has started building a fence along parts of its border with China in an apparent move to prevent people from fleeing the impoverished communist country, a news report said today. The ...

The unarmed, male civilian navigated through the heavily land-mined area, hiding under bushes, and was later found in a shallow creek ...

As host of the summit, South Korea faces threats from known enemy North Korea but could now be on Al Qaeda’s radar, Kirton said. Advertisement “A G-20 meeting is the perfect terrorist target ...

It's no surprise that the man claims he is a former gymnast. The unnamed man, who is described as being in his late 20s, crossed into South Korea through the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at around 7 p ...

An unidentified man who crossed the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea on Sunday is presumed to be a North Korean defector who made the journey in the opposite direction more ...

South Korea plans to dismantle parts of a wire fence built in the 1950s to prevent infiltration by North Korean agents, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday, a sign that perceptions about Seoul's ...

A person who crossed the border from South Korea into North Korea on New Year's Day was likely a defector who had made the trip in the other direction in late 2020, the military said Monday.

A former gymnast from North Korea told South Korean security forces he vaulted a 10-foot border fence topped with barbed wire Nov. 4 to defect, authorities say. Ahn Young-joon Associated Press file ...

ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST: The U.S. maintains a military force of nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea. Every so often, there's an incident involving one of them, but today's episode was extremely unusual.