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A failed plot to assassinate a C.I.A. spy in 2020 in part led to expulsions of the agency's chief in Moscow and his Russian counterpart in Washington. As President Vladimir [...]

Newly released photos of two North Korean men being deported under Moon Jae-in have revived accusations of a potential ''crime against humanity.'' SEOUL -- The video footage and photos captured [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim SEOUL - A man who crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea is believed to be a previous defector from the North to South Korea. [...]

The breach at the Demilitarized Zone went unnoticed for hours, the South Korean military said. There was no immediate response from North Korea. SEOUL -- The South Korean military said [...]

A former air traffic controller has been telling Polish investigators what he knows about the diversion of the plane carrying a Belarus dissident in May. WARSAW -- This summer, as [...]

Byline: Amy Cheng Authorities in the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin are hunting for a North Korean defector who hopped a wall and escaped from prison on Monday night. Prison [...]

The South Korean military admitted to a lapse in its border security. The crossing marked the second embarrassing breach for the country in recent months. SEOUL, South Korea -- A [...]

South Korea said its sensors had malfunctioned, allowing a North Korean to defect undetected, in the military's most embarrassing border security breach in years. SEOUL, South Korea -- It's the [...]

The man breached the Koreas' heavily armed land border, triggering an extensive manhunt in the South, officials said. SEOUL, South Korea -- The South Korean military on Wednesday detained a [...]

Jo Song-gil was the North's acting ambassador to Rome when he vanished, raising the possibility that he had become the highest-ranking official to defect to the South since 1997. SEOUL, [...]

''I am deeply sorry that an unexpected and unfortunate thing has happened in our territorial waters,'' the North Korean leader said in a telephone message, officials in the South said. [...]

The body of the fisheries official was set ablaze in the North's waters for fear he was carrying the coronavirus, South Korean officials said. SEOUL, South Korea -- A South [...]

When it left Vietnam in 1973, the South Korean military said none of its soldiers had been taken prisoner. It took Ahn Yong-soo decades to change the narrative. SEOUL, South [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim and Stefano PitrelliSEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's top diplomat in Italy has gone into hiding, South Korea's intelligence officials told lawmakers on Thursday.Jo Song Gil, [...]

WASHINGTON -- When a suspected hit man for Russian intelligence arrived in Florida about four years ago, F.B.I. surveillance teams were alarmed. The man approached the home of one of [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- A United Nations official on Tuesday called for an investigation into whether 12 North Korean waitresses were brought to South Korea against their will, saying that [...]

HONG KONG -- A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Thursday through the heavily guarded demilitarized zone separating the two countries, leading to gunfire on both sides of [...]

A North Korean defector on Monday made a bold dash through gunfire across a stretch of the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea: The Joint Security Area in [...]

A North Korean defector on Monday made a bold dash through gunfire across a stretch of the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea: The Joint Security Area in [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Ten North Koreans, including a 3-year-old boy and his mother, have been arrested in China and face being deported to their totalitarian homeland, a rights activist [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Until April, Lim Ji-hyun had been a modest television celebrity in South Korea, talking to the audience about the country she knew best: North Korea. She [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Five North Koreans crossed into South Korean waters in a boat on Saturday, sailing across a heavily guarded maritime border between the two nations in what [...]

Byline: Kim Gamel SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean man defected to South Korea on Sunday after swimming south with plastic foam pieces on his shoulders to help keep [...]

Byline: Yoo Kyong Chang SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean soldier defected to the South on Tuesday after crossing the heavily fortified border that divides the two countries, the [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin The Syrian defector known as 'Caesar,' who brought the world the largest trove of evidence of mass atrocities perpetrated by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, is returning [...]

Byline: Kim Gamel and Yoo Kyong Chang SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean official stationed in China and charged with providing medical supplies to a clinic used by leader [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Thursday morning, sneaking across the countries' land border, which is heavily guarded with armed sentries, minefields and [...]

BINDURA, Zimbabwe -- Dozens of angry young men jumped off a truck in front of Agrippah Mutambara's gate, shouting obscenities and threatening to seize his 530-acre farm in the name [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said on Saturday that a diplomat in its London embassy who recently defected to South Korea had fled rather than face punishment for various [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira He was a KGB agent, a Soviet defector who'd come to the United States in January 1964, just two months after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Yuri [...]

Byline: Anna Fifield SEOUL -- Efforts to hold the Kim regime accountable for decades of brutality against the North Korean people have so far amounted to little, but that isn't [...]

LOOMIS, Calif. -- China is demanding that the Obama administration return a wealthy and politically connected businessman who fled to the United States, according to several American officials familiar with [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Three North Korean sailors have defected to South Korea after their ship strayed into the South's waters over the weekend, the government here said Tuesday. A [...]

Byline: Dominique Soguel Islamic State checkpoints have sprouted like mushrooms in its Syrian strongholds over the past month, residents say, as the militants clamp down on fighters' movements in a [...]

A man claiming to be a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, the ruthless renegade guerrilla organization in central Africa led by Joseph Kony, the fugitive warlord, has surrendered [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean soldiers shot and killed a man who was making a rare attempt to enter North Korea from the South, the Defense Ministry said Monday. [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Shin Dong-hyuk said his earliest memory of life in a North Korean prison camp was the public execution that inmates were forced to watch when he [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syria's government suffered an embarrassing new setback as the top general responsible for preventing defections within the military became a defector himself, making what insurgents described on [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- A North Korean soldier who defected to South Korea this month not only scaled three barbed-wire fences along one of the world's most heavily patrolled borders [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- A North Korean Army sergeant defected to South Korea on Saturday after killing his platoon and squadron leaders, a South Korean military spokesman said. South Korean [...]

''Una Noche,'' or ''One Night,'' a film showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, tells the story of three young Cubans who decide to defect to the United States, and last [...]

TOKYO -- Nine North Korean defectors, including three children, were rescued off the coast of Japan after drifting some 500 miles in a small wooden boat, the Japanese Coast Guard [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- For months, American and Afghan officials have been promoting a plan to persuade masses of rank-and-file Taliban fighters to change sides and join the government. The tactic, [...]