A North Korean man crossed the DMZ on foot before midnight Thursday, asking South Korean troops for help in a rare defection ...

After the US assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities policymakers and analysts in East Asia were already grappling with a ...

Attacks on Iran tell North Korea that nuclear weapons are vital for survival, dashing China’s hopes to denuclearise peninsula ...

Even Israel’s advanced Iron Dome defence system was pierced by Iranian projectiles, highlighting vulnerabilities Seoul must ...

The Trump administration should embrace a North Korea strategy that aims to contain escalation, not keep a white-knuckled ...

Secretive North Korea gave a rare look inside one of its uranium facilities after Kim Jong Un’s visit last year ...

The uneasy truce between the nuclear-armed North and the US-allied South remains one of the most vexing security concerns for ...

US President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities has been widely seen as ...

The United States' and Israel's strikes on Iran are concerning, and not just for the questionable legal justifications ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, international correspondent Anthony Kuhn talks about how he covers North Korea without ...