A North Korean soldier was taken into custody by the South after he voluntarily crossed the heavily fortified land border ...

Since last year, North Korea has further reinforced its side of the border with anti-tank barriers and other fortifications, ...

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone​ on Sunday, South Korea's ...

Crossing the inter-Korean “demilitarized zone”—ironically the most militarized zone on Earth—is extraordinarily dangerous on foot, but some North Korean conscripts attempt it anyway.

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 ...