A North Korean soldier defected to the South by crossing the heavily protected Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two sides. This is the fourth defection by a North Korean soldier via the DMZ ...

Paju and two other border cities are emerging as candidates for a peace park inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), envisioned ...

in the area known as the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ). Both were created under the terms of the armistice signed in 1953 which ended the Korean War. The JSA - also called Panmunjom, or the Truce ...

Crucially, Carter came up with a deal where North Korea would stop its nuclear activity, allow IAEA inspectors back into its ...

Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea when he stepped over the border to greet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas. The ...

Death and destruction in Korea are felt at the individual, family and national levels but at the international level, it has ...

In the summer of 1994, war on the Korean Peninsula seemed inevitable. Then Carter and his wife arrived in Pyongyang.

Visiting the DMZ was one of the most fascinating experiences ... The rest of the park is full of memorials to the Korean war such as Mangbaeddan, a monument which allows displaced people whose ...

Chun In-bum, a former commander of South Korea's special forces, agrees with the defectors' appraisals. "Just because they lack food and training, does not mean they are incapable. They will ...

However, the DMZ simultaneously exists as a place of rich ecological diversity. After the Korean War ended in 1953, the peninsula was separated by a haphazard line drawn from east to west. Neighbors ...