There were dozens of activists and police officers, their attention fixed on one man: Ahn Hak-sop, a 95-year-old former North Korean prisoner of war who was making his way home, to the other side of the border that divides the Korean peninsula.

A report published on Wednesday identified a secret North Korean base that could support the rapid launch of long-range missiles.

Scientists bought “snake liquor” in North Korea and identified its contents as the country’s first confirmed records of three venomous species of pit vipers. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In hopes of learning more about snake diversity in North ...

When South Korean President Lee Jae-myung delivered an Independence Day speech earlier this month, he paid much attention to North Korea. He announced his intention to restore a 2018 era military agreement and reminded his nation that he has taken a number of steps to reduce tensions with the North,

Now 95 years old and living in South Korea, Ahn Hak-seop longs to return to North Korea so he can die there. There’s just one problem: no one is certain if North Korea will actually take him.

The intercontinental ballistic missiles likely to be housed at the military base “pose a potential nuclear threat to East Asia and the continental United States,” researchers said.

The two self-described hacktivists said they had access to the North Korean spy’s computer for around four months before deciding what they had found should be made public.