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Best DMZ Tours from Seoul

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is one of the most unique places you can visit on the Korean Peninsula. Stretching 250 kilometers across the middle of the country (at the 38th...

U.S. Seeks to Overhaul DMZ Management in South Korea

The United States and South Korea on Thursday discussed revisions to the management plan for the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the buffer zone between North and South Korea. The post U...

Military helicopter mistakenly enters DMZ during wildfire operation last month

A South Korean military helicopter accidentally entered the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas last month during wildfire operations, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS...

No reports of MDL crossings by N. Korean troops this year amid border fortification: source

North Korean troops have not crossed the inter-Korean border so far this year as Pyongyang appears to have completed land-clearing work as part of its border fortification measures...

UNC deputy chief cautions against changes to 'proven framework' over DMZ control

The deputy commander of the U.N. Command (UNC) has stressed the need for prudence in any changes regarding the control and use of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) sep...

South Korean military helicopter mistakenly enters DMZ during wildfire operation

South Korean military helicopter mistakenly enters DMZ during wildfire operation

South Korean helicopter accidentally crossed into DMZ while fighting wildfire

A South Korean Army Surion helicopter mistakenly flew into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea… The post South Korean helicopter accidentally crossed into...

Kim Jong Un demands military turn border with South into impregnable fortress

Kim Jong Un demands military turn border with South into impregnable fortress

North Korea to turn southern border into ‘impregnable fortress’ against ‘arch enemy’

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on top military officials to bolster front-line units and turn the southern border into an “impregnable fortress”, state media reported on Mo...

China tells U.S. Korea commander he crossed the line

The top American general in South Korea described the Korean Peninsula as “the dagger in the heart of Asia” from China’s perspective, and China’s embassy in Seoul responded by publ...

[MORNING CALM TALES] How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

In the spring of 1994, a crisis erupted when a North Korean official declared, during a meeting with his South Korean counterpart at Panmunjeom, “Seoul is not far from here. If the...

Commander of U.S. Forces in Korea States Hails ‘Dagger’ Pointed at China

Commander of U.S. Forces Korea General Xavier Brunson has stated that the Korean Peninsula as “the dagger in the heart of Asia” from China’s perspective, resulting

Korean Peninsula Military Tensions Rising as Pyongyang Expands Nuclear, Ballistic-Missile Programmes, Speakers Warn Secu...

Kim Jong Un Convenes a Military-Wide Commander Meeting

The North Korean leader called for restructuring the army’s training system and reinforcing front-line units along the southern border, as Pyongyang deepens its push to redefine th...

‘Combat ready’: Inside Korea’s Cheongung-II missile defense unit

SACHEON, South Gyeongsang Province — Sirens echoed as members of an Air Force missile defense unit rushed toward Cheongung-II launchers during a simulated ballistic missile interce...

S. Korean envoy stresses commitment to 'peaceful coexistence' on peninsula, denuclearization

WASHINGTON — South Korea's top envoy to the U.N. reaffirmed Seoul's commitment to "peaceful coexistence" on the Korean Peninsula and denuclearization Thursday as he explained its p...

Top DPRK leader calls for strengthening first-line units in southern border

PYONGYANG, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has called for strengthening the first-line units in the southern border and turnin...