If confirmed, the soldier would join tens of thousands of North Koreans who have fled poverty and repression in North Korea since the peninsula was split by war in the 1950s. Last year, 236 North ...

It was the first reported defection by a North Korean soldier since a North Korean staff sergeant fled to South Korea via the ...

A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border. The South Korean military ...

All the films that deal with an event like this one, there's just so much detailed process of the hijacking part,” Byun tells ...

Capt. Charles G. Gibson Jr. was declared missing in action during the Korean War's Battle of Chosin Reservoir in 1950. In ...

Trained to protect the regime, a few elite North Korean guards chose something else—escape. Their stories reveal what life is ...

More than 1,000 Cubans have been tricked into fighting for Russia in the Ukraine war, it has been reported. The Kyiv ...

Photos of North Korea's military provide a glimpse into what it's like to serve in one of the world's largest and most ...

When Russia launched its illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, few believed Kyiv would be ...

This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War Two.