The two Koreas agree to hold rare reunions next month for families separated by the Korean War, according to Seoul.

He's a fairly young man, wearing an ill-fitting suit. His thin neck is pronounced, giving way to an equally thin face and frame. He's a defector from North Korea.

In Beijing, China marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, and its role in defeating Japan, by holding an enormous military parade and declaring a new national holiday. The spectacle involved more than 12,000 troops, 500 pieces of military hardware and 200 aircraft.

North Korea promulgated the leadership of Kim Jong Un on its annual National Youth Day on Friday, urging young North Koreans to devote loyalty to Kim and to lean into the construction of a "civilized socialist nation." Pyongyang's state newspaper Rodong Sinmun claimed, "The Great Leader Kim Il Sung cultivated the nation's youth to realize a strong spiritual awakening [so that they become] the Party's trustworthy successors," South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

Journalist Suki Kim talks about going undercover in North Korea and discovering a world bound in secrecy and lies.

The agreement between North and South Korea to defuse tensions has been welcomed on both sides – but Pyongyang's official narrative indicated it held a different view from Seoul on the recent skirmishes. Hwang Pyong So, director of the general political bureau of North Korea's military said on state television Tuesday that South Korea had learned a "serious lesson" on creating provocations without cause, Yonhap reported.

South Korea has agreed to stop its anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts after North Korea expresses regret over a land mine blast that maimed two South Korean soldiers.

Aides to the leaders of North and South Korea held talks at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their border on Saturday and into the early hours of Sunday, raising hopes for an end to a standoff that put the rivals on the brink of armed conflict. The meeting at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) village, known for its sky-blue huts and grim-faced soldiers, began soon after the deadline for North Korea's previously set ultimatum demanding that...

North Korea has ratcheted up war rhetoric against South Korea as the two nations traded artillery fire across the inter-Korea border Saturday. The South's troops are on full alert as the North's attack deadline looms.

North Korea’s leader has ordered its military to be fully ready for war, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says. It comes after the North earlier threatened military action if the South continues pumping propaganda into the North across the border using loud speakers.

North Korea is constantly trying to convince the rest of the world that life in the Hermit Kingdom is not that bad. In Pyongyang, new projects like water parks, 4D cinemas, and a brand new dolphinarium suggest that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is determined to change its image from a famine and drought-plagued dystopia to a modern worker’s paradise.

Kim Jong-Un reportedly tells his forces to prepare for military action as tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula.

The recent defection of eight North Koreans has prompted the reclusive state to boost its border security, and the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, has ordered barbed-wire fences be installed around the area where the defections were believed to have taken place. The defectors, from two different families in Musan County in North Hamgyong province, are believed to have escaped to China Aug. 9. The defections have prompted a massive investigation...

Hello Imgur community, it’s been about a year of stalking you all until I’ve finally decided to make my first authentic post. For the impatient ones, TL;DR: I went to North Korea for a medical missions trip and observed the nuanced provisions of healthcare and how North Koreans live, behave, and think. This is me along the Taedong River in Pyongyang, with the Juche Tower looming ominously in the background.

SEOUL, South Korea — Since the late 1990s, some 28,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea. Only one, as far as anyone knows, has ever asked to go back.

North Korea on Friday threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" unless South Korean activists stop the launches of propaganda leaflets across the heavily fortified border. The warning came hours after South Korean police blocked activists from launching leaflets amid elevated military tensions on the divided peninsula.

North Korea on Saturday threatened South Korea with "indiscriminate" military strikes unless it halts cross-border propaganda broadcasts, and issued fresh nuclear weapons warnings against the United States. The threats came amid escalating military tensions on the Korean peninsula following a landmine attack South Korea blamed on the North and ahead of a major South Korea-US joint military exercise condemned by Pyongyang. After three landmine blasts maimed two South Korean soldiers on border...

North Korea's vice premier was executed by firing squad this year after showing discontent with the policies of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean media report said on Wednesday. Yonhap News Agency cited an unnamed source as saying that the 63-year-old Choe Yong Gon, a former delegate for North-South cooperation, was executed, marking another death of a senior official in a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took charge in late 2011.

South Korea's government says it is monitoring reports that North Korea's vice-premier Choe Yong-gon was killed in May on the orders of Kim Jong-un. Mr Choe was executed after he "expressed discomfort against the young leader's forestation policy", South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports. Close to 70 officials have been killed under Kim Jong-un's rule, Yonhap says.

Tension is building along the inter-Korean border as the South is beefing up military readiness in response to last week's mine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) blamed on the North. The Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday troops along the border are on high alert to ensure an immediate response to any additional provocations by North Korean troops.