For the first time in over five years, foreign tourists can now visit North Korea, just in time for late leader Kim Jong Il's birthday celebrations.

The number of North Korean defectors who arrived in South Korea reached 236 in 2024, up by 20.4 percent compared to the previous year, according to the Unification Ministry on Tuesday.

A neon-stacked building in Yanji, a Chinese city on the North Korean border, brings internet culture to life, drawing waves of tourists eager to see the spectacle in person.

North Korea Denounces US for Sending Aircraft Over Korean Peninsula, KCNA Reports SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea denounced the United States for sending military aircraft over the Korean peninsula ...

Defectors in Seoul share sentiments about North Korean soldiers in Russia. SEOUL -- Over 12,000 North Korean troops are estimated to be fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region ...

A third of the troops North Korea deployed to western Russia’s Kursk Oblast late last year has been killed or wounded, according to Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky. Col. Ants Kiviselg ...

Ukrainian special forces encountered North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region using self-detonation tactics. Over a dozen bodies were found, with one survivor detonating a grenade. Reports ...

Among them, they found one soldier was still alive. But as Ukrainian soldiers approached him, the lone North Korean detonated his own grenade, blowing himself up to avoid being captured ...

Ukraine has found “irrefutable evidence” of North Korea’s involvement in Russia’s war against his country, president Volodymyr Zelensky said this week as he announced the capture of two North Korean ...

A lone North Korean soldier who survived an intense battle against Ukrainian soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region blew himself up to avoid being captured — as “brainwashed” Hermit Kingdom ...

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North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia’s Kursk region against Ukrainian forces have begun resorting to drastic measures to evade capture, including suicide, a report by Reuters on Tuesday said.