South Korea's defence ministry said today that North Korean forces shot dead a South Korean fisheries official who had disappeared during a routine patrol operation.

South Korean man strays in Pyongyang waters; shot & cremated by North Korea

North Korea has suspended military action plans against South Korea, Reuters reported quoting the official KCNA news agency on Wednesday. The latest development comes amid report suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers recently reinstalled at the fortified border.

North Korea suspends military action plans against South Korea: Report

North Korea has warned that it is “fully ready” to send troops into the demilitarised zone [DMZ] separating it from South Korea if defector groups push ahead with their campaign to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets into North Korea, state media said on Tuesday.

North Korea ' fully ready' to send troops into demilitarised zone as propaganda leaflets row escalates

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally supervised the "test-fire of a new weapon", the latest in a series of missile launches, state media reported Sunday -- as US President Donald Trump said Pyongyang wants to resume denuclearisation talks.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un oversaw test of 'new weapon': Report

The South Korean military detained a North Korean soldier who crossed the heavily fortified demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates the two countries, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) said on Thursday.

South Korea detains North Korean man crossing the DMZ

The meeting, initiated by a spur-of-the-moment tweet by Trump that Kim said took him by surprise, once again displayed the rapport between the two. But they are no closer to narrowing the gap between their positions since they walked away from their summit in February in Vietnam.

After surprise Trump-Kim meeting, US and North Korea to reopen talks

Demilitarised Zone: A look at the world's last Cold War frontier

In this segment, Political Analyst, DR. Robert Edwin Kelly speaks to WION on Trump-Kim Jong-un meet.

Dr. Robert Edwin Kelly speaks to WION on Trump-Kim Jong-un meet

Donald Trump meets Kim Jong-un, becomes first sitting United States president to set foot in North Korea

Mr Trump became the first sitting US president to cross into North Korea after meeting Mr Kim at the demilitarised zone (DMZ). Critics have dismissed it as pure political theatre, but others say it could set the scene for future talks.

Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un makes history at Korean Border

A historical handshake: Trump-kim meets at Korean border

South Korea reopened the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the truce village of Panmunjom to the public on Wednesday, a year after a historic summit was held there between the two Korean leaders, Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un.

Guns out, cameras in: Korean truce village lets tourists back in

Kim Jong-Un made history in April this year by becoming the first North Korean leader to set foot in South Korea in six decades. He met South Korean president Moon Jae-in for the third inter-Korean summit at the Peace House, a three-storeyed building located just across the demilitarised zone (DMZ) on the South Korean side of Panmunjom truce village.

Historic inter-Korean summit: When the two Koreas met

In Pics: In a first, Korean soldiers cross border peacefully

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WION Dispatch: North, South Korea connect road across demilitarised zone

North and South Korea have connected a road across their shared border for the first time in 14 years, Seoul's defence ministry said Thursday in the latest reconciliation gesture between the neighbours.

Two Koreas connect DMZ road across border: Seoul

Small drills go ahead on South Korean island as two Koreas halt 'hostile' acts near border

In a scripted ceremony, Kim Jong-un did become the first North Korean leader to walk across the DMZ to South Korea.

Opinion: Decoding the Kim and Moon summit for a nuclear free Korea

The DMZ - a legacy of the Cold War - intersects the 38th Parallel, which was the border separating the two countries before the Korean war of 1950.

Ahead of the inter-Korean summit, ground report from DMZ

North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South after their first formal talks in more than two years

North Korea to attend Olympics in rival South

Defections across the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone that divides the Korean peninsula are very rare, but this year there have been four.

North Korean defector numbers slump as controls tighten

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