The two Koreas remain technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice ... adhere to a fragile ceasefire agreement in the DMZ, a 2½-mile-wide buffer zones spanning the ...

The Korean DMZ was never meant to become a haven for wildlife. After the Korean War armistice in 1953, a 250-kilometer-long and four-kilometer-wide buffer zone was established to separate North ...

North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un took a bold step on April 27, 2018 and crossed over to South Korea for a historic summit. This was the first time a North Korean leader had entered the South ...

Seoul claims ten soldiers violated the demarcation line in a potentially significant escalation in tensions between the two countries ...

North and South Korea are collaborating to save one of the world's most endangered bird species, red-crowned cranes. Michael S. Yamashita Choi Jong Soo and I are driving down a two-lane highway ...

The 248-kilometer (155-mile) -long, 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) -wide DMZ is one of the world’s ... It’s a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

The DMZ is a no-man’s land about 30 miles north of Seoul that was established in the 1953 Korean War Armistice Agreement to provide distance between the two sides and prevent military brush-ups.