As the motives and routes of defection from North Korea diversify, the number of defectors’ children born in third countries has been increasing.

Who is in the biggest hurry to conclude current negotiations: the U.S., South Korea, or North Korea?  It is not easy to tell. 

While America’s overall merchandise trade deficit went up by 6.7 percent for the first six months of this year, it declined 23 percent with South Korea.

The current diplomatic thaw between North and South Korea has given rise to a range of sports exchanges, here is a timeline of past and present exchanges.

There are 36,574 Americans listed by the Department of Defense as having been killed in the Korean War and approximately 5,300 are still in North Korea. 

On July 27, some 55 sets of human remains were transferred to U.S. military personnel by North Korean military officials in the city of Wonson, North Korea.