The South Korean coast guard said Saturday it found 21 North Korean defectors adrift on the Yellow Sea this week.
South Korea has returned home four North Korean fishermen rescued from two sinking boats in the Yellow Sea near the maritime border, the semiofficial Yonhap News Agency reported.
The South Korean military rescued four North Koreans from two sinking boats in the west sea near the maritime border, a defense ministry spokesman said.
In February, military talks between North and South Korea ended in failure. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
South Korea has proposed sending aid to North Korea to assist with damages caused by torrential rain that hit the peninsula last week, the South's Ministry of Unification said.
South Korea admitted Thursday that it held a secret meeting with the North last month.
South Korea said Tuesday it regrets North Korea's announcement that it will cut all ties with its neighbor.
South Korea agreed in principal to hold humanitarian talks with North Korea, as the two sides resumed working-level military meetings Wednesday, South Korea's government said.
North and South Korea opened working-level military talks Tuesday at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, marking the first inter-Korean dialogue in months.
North and South Korea have agreed to hold working-level military talks at the truce village of Panmunjom next week, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.
In July, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. discussed the condemnation of the sinking of a South Korean warship.
The South Korean Ministry of Unification confirmed Wednesday that it has reopened communication channels with Pyongyang, North Korea, in the border area of Panmunjom.
In the face of North Korean threats, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak stepped up his nationalist push, urging countrymen in a radio address "to stand together, united as one."
CNN's Kyung Lah tours a photo gallery designed to create unified opinion about South Korean national security.
Weeks after North Korea's attack on Yeonpyeong Island, the mood is still tense on the streets of Seoul, especially following the largest ever winter live-fire drill and civil defense exercise.
Gov. Bill Richardson says North and South Korea were 'very close' to war when he arrived in North Korea last week.
Military exercises by the South Korean army have ended. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
A disputed maritime border. Long-standing tensions. And Tuesday, a sharp escalation of hostilities. North and South Korea fired at each other for about an hour on an island that sits off a disputed border. The deadly skirmish raised fears of war between the two rival nations, once again spiking tension in the entire region.
The South Korean presidential office accepted the resignation of the chief of the Army Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.
South Korea will "firmly" respond to future provocations from North Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Monday, declaring that his nation "cannot remain patient" in the face of continued hostility from Pyongyang.
South Korea's government on Friday nominated Kim Kwan Jin as defense minister, a Blue House media official told CNN.
North Korea warned Friday that planned U.S. and South Korean military exercises beginning this weekend bring the Korean Peninsula "closer to the brink of war," according to state news agency KCNA.
North Korea's latest unprovoked military attack on South Korea -- the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island near the Northern Limit Line demarcating the Korean Peninsula's maritime boundary -- is a stark reminder that the Korean War never ended.
Two viewers who live in South Korea tell CNN how they are reacting to news of the crisis.
On the surface, Seoul, the capital of economic powerhouse South Korea, is one of the most impressive cities in East Asia: Sprawling and prosperous, hi-tech and self confident.
The Korean War began 60 years ago on June 25, 1950, and it still hasn't ended. Fighting on the Korean Peninsula may have stopped with a cease-fire in July 1953, but North and South Korea have remained in a tense state of armed truce ever since, with open warfare just a hair-trigger away.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on North Korea to end belligerent actions during a visit to South Korea.
South Korea has denounced a policy that called for a peaceful engagement with North Korea as a failure.
More than a dozen nations launched a joint military exercise Wednesday off South Korea, aimed at preventing the transfer of weapons of mass destruction, military officials said Wednesday.
South Korea and North Korea on Thursday morning began military talks for the first time in nearly two years, the Yonhap news agency reported.
South Korea's final report on the March sinking of the warship Cheonan reaffirms that a North Korean torpedo sent the ship to the bottom of the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
Both Koreas present their cases to the U.N. over the sinking of a South Korean warship. CNN's Richard Roth reports.
The United States and South Korean navies will begin a joint exercise off the western coast of the Korean peninsula in response to North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship last March.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has proposed a plan to reunite his country with North Korea and suggested a tax to prepare for the costs expected, if the two countries come together, South Korea's state media said Sunday.
North Korea said Sunday that it will "deal a merciless counterblow to the U.S. imperialists" and to South Korean "traitors," in response to word that the United States and South Korea will begin a joint military exercise on Monday.
South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak nominated Kim Tae-ho to be the new prime minister as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, state media said Sunday.
The United States and South Korea on Wednesday plan to end their joint military exercises aimed at warning North Korea to stop acts of aggression.
The United States and South Korea begin a third day of military exercises. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
The U.S.-led United Nations Command will meet again Friday with North Korea to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship, according to the U.S. Forces Korea website.
South Korea's prime minister has offered to resign for a second time, the prime minister's office said Thursday, after failure to win parliamentary approval to stop relocation of government offices out of the capital, Seoul.
Amid heightened tensions with North Korea, the United States and South Korea on Sunday began joint military exercises.
Amid heightened tensions with North Korea, the United States and South Korea on Sunday began joint military exercises.
Former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy discusses the latest threat from North Korea.
North Korea on Saturday heightened its threats against upcoming U.S.-supported military exercises after talks over the sinking of a South Korean warship.
The second round of talks between North Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command on the peninsula ended Friday.
North Korea has agreed to hold talks Friday with the U.S.-led U.N. Command on the peninsula over the sinking of a South Korean warship.
The United States is going all out this week to show support for its key Asian ally, South Korea, in the wake of one of its war ships being sunk, as President Barack Obama dispatched the secretaries of State and Defense to the Korean peninsula.
The United States and South Korea will conduct major joint military exercises starting Sunday just off the Korean peninsula, the U.S. military announced Tuesday.
The United Nations formally condemned Friday the sinking of a South Korean warship in March but did not specifically name North Korea, which a multinational probe found culpable in the incident.
The United Nations is set to formally condemn the action -- but not a particular nation -- for the March sinking of a South Korean warship, the Cheonan.
The U.N. is expected to condemn North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship. CNN's Richard Roth reports.
South Korea's prime minister has offered to resign, his communications office said Monday, after failure to win parliamentary approval to stop relocation of government offices out of the capital, Seoul.
North Korea has called for a joint investigation with South Korea into the sinking of a South Korean navy vessel last March, but the proposal was quickly rejected by Seoul.
The United States will not return North Korea to its list of state sponsors of terrorism despite its alleged role in the sinking of a South Korea naval ship in contested waters off the peninsula's coast.
North and South Korea marked the 60th anniversary of the Korean War with sober commemorations and sharp rhetoric as tensions continued to ripple between the two countries over the sinking in March of a South Korean warship.
North Korea may consider a tougher punishment for a jailed American citizen if the United States "persists in its hostile approach" toward Pyongyang, North Korea's official news agency said Thursday.
North Korea on Tuesday rejected international findings that it sank a South Korean ship, warning at the United Nations the dispute could lead to war.
United Nations Security Council President Claude Heller said that the U.N. body is "gravely concerned" about tensions between North Korea and South Korea after hearing presentations from both sides Monday into the sinking of a South Korean naval ship in contested waters in March.
I'm looking down from the open door of a Black Hawk helicopter at a straight drop of 2,000 feet. I don't get vertigo, but this is a long way down.
CNN's Dan Rivers boards a gunship to see how the U.S. military is testing its readiness amid rising Korean tensions.
When Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visited South Korea last week, politicians, diplomats and reporters in Seoul parsed his public statements, looking for indications on China's stand on the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan.
Park Sang Hak and his family jammed 150,000 sheets of paper, dollar bills, DVDs and tiny AM/FM radios inside bags attached to giant inflatable helium balloons.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday that Northeast Asia -- which includes the Korean Peninsula -- must push for peace and avoid violent clashes in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship, state news reported.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday that while his country will not defend whoever is responsible for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, it is not ready to accept South Korea's investigations that blame North Korea for the incident, officials said.
Is China reviewing ties with North Korea, following the sinking of a South Korean ship? CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
A North Korean official has questioned South Korea's credibility for its rhetoric and actions over the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, state-run media in North Korea reported Saturday.
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