The division of Korea into North and South is the result of deep historical, political, and ideological conflicts that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. For over a thousand years, Korea was a ...

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of ...

GIMPO, South Korea (AP) — Prisoners of war held for decades after the fighting stopped. Civilian abductees. Defectors.

Until the 1990s South Korea, fearing a North Korean ... right beneath the DMZ and to within 300 metres of the Military Demarcation Line that marks the precise boundary between North and South Korea.

North Korea confirmed Thursday that its recently revised constitution defines South Korea as “a hostile state" for the first time, two days after it blew up front-line road and rail links that ...

Four sailors who had drifted over the disputed maritime boundary came in May. The other two entered southern waters in March ...

Early Phase. In 1950, Korea went from an unimportant backwater to the epicenter of the Cold War. At the time, Kim Il-Sung’s regime was stronger than its disunited neighbor to the south.

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

“If we give up reunification, the conflict between North and South Korea will grow even more bitter and the security threat on the peninsula will only grow,” President Yoon said in response to ...

North Korea’s army said it will take the “substantial military step” of completely cutting off its territory from South Korea on Wednesday, after months of fortifying its heavily armed border.

South Korea’s National Assembly Budget Office said in a 2015 report that spending of 4.8 quadrillion won ($3.45 trillion) would be required over half a century to raise the North’s per capita ...