Nearly all would raise their hands to go, ex-military defectors explain, owing to regime loyalty, promise of higher status and a glimpse of the outside world.

A new missile test, troops to Russia and death sentences for K-pop

Amid worrying times, South Korea is considering building nuclear weapons of its own in what could create a “balance of terror”.

Majority of the dead were workers who emigrated from China, officials say

Kim Jong-un has found a new, and gross, way of annoying South Korea – with a flotilla of excrement filled balloons sent across the border.

Pyongyang called the exercises “an act of seriously threatening the security” of North Korea that further destabilized the situation in the region, according to state media.

North Korea is formally abolishing a handful of key government agencies charged with promoting cooperation and reunification with the South, state media reported Tuesday.

Lee Jae-myung was attacked during a press conference in Busan.

New details have emerged regarding the final days of Parasite star Lee Sun-kyun, after his shock death shook Hollywood.

Lee, who has died aged 48, was a homegrown star who graduated to global fame in the multi-award-winning Parasite

North Korea's ambassador made a rare appearance at the UN Security Council on Monday to defend his country's launch of a spy satellite, as leader Kim Jong Un studied images including of the White House and Pentagon.

North Korea said Thursday it would deploy new weapons and stronger armed forces to the border with the South, as Seoul's spy agency said Pyongyang had received Russian help to successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit.

US soldier Travis King has been charged with desertion for crossing into North Korea and a raft of other crimes including assaulting fellow soldiers and soliciting child pornography, US media reported on Thursday.

The meeting marked the beginning of what the White House hopes will be an extended stretch of three-way engagement

North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after being disillusioned with the inequality of American society and racial discrimination in its Army.

North Korea is reported to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily-fortified border from South Korea without permission.

South Koreans have become a year or two younger as a new law aligns the nation's two traditional age-counting methods with international standards.