One night last October, the four boarded Kang’s rickety wooden boat — with a rudimentary pumping system for bailing out the water — and set out for South Korea. Or death. “I was ready to ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Five people are missing after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea’s Jeju island on Wednesday, officials said. The coast guard of the island’s Seogwipo city said 10 ...

South Korean soldiers lock the entrance to a beach on Yeonpyeong island, near the northern limit line sea boundary with the North A small boat carrying suspected defectors from North Korea has ...

Nine fishermen are missing after a boat capsized off the southwestern coast of South Korea late Saturday, authorities said. On Sunday, more than 30 coast guard vessels and at least eight coast ...

South Korea’s military said it secured the custody of the North Koreans in coordination with the coast guard, after chasing their boat along the sea border. A military statement said the North ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says it fired warning shots to repel a North Korean patrol vessel that temporarily crossed the countries’ disputed western sea boundary while ...

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s military says it fired warning shots to repel a North Korean patrol vessel that temporarily crossed the countries’ disputed western sea boundary while ...

Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals’ coup d’etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. “The finest thing that has happened ...

has contacted North Korea multiple times and is waiting for a response regarding the repatriation of two North Koreans found aboard a drifting boat in the Yellow Sea last month, Seoul's point man ...

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