Representatives from two Western travel agencies crossed into North Korea Thursday for the first time since the isolated regime closed its borders five years ago, raising hopes for new tour offerings to a border city.

South Korean football player Hwang Ui-jo has been handed a suspended one-year jail term for illegally filming his sexual encounters with a woman, Yonhap News Agency reported.

South Korea international Hwang Ui-jo has been given a suspended one-year prison sentence for secretly filming himself having sex with a woman. The 32-year-old former Nottingham Forest striker had been charged with secretly filming himself having sex with two women who allegedly did not know they were being recorded.

North Korea is dismantling a facility at its Mount Kumgang resort used for hosting meetings between families separated after the Korean War, South Korea said on Thursday, in the latest sign of strained tensions between the two Koreas.

North Korea is demolishing a South Korea-built property that had been used to host reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War, the South’s government said Thursday, as it continues to eliminate symbols of engagement between the war-divided rivals.

North Korea is demolishing a venue that for decades hosted tearful reunions of families separated by the Korean War and the division of the country, Seoul said Thursday, decrying the

A fire broke out at a resort construction site in the South Korean city of Busan on Friday, killing at least six people, fire officials said

A fire at a resort construction site in the South Korean city of Busan on Friday, killed at least six people, fire officials said.