Korean War

THR) China’s runaway Korean War blockbuster The Battle of Lake Changjin has continued its epic siege on the country’s cinemas, roaring past the $400 million mark Wednesday, less than a week after its release.To date, the film has earned $405 million (RMB 2.62 billion), the third biggest total in China this…

North Korea has rebuffed South Korea’s push for a political declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War as a way to restore peace, saying such a step could be used as a “smokescreen covering up the US hostile policy” against the North. n a speech at the UN General Assembly…

Comments come a week after North Korea and South Korea test-fired ballistic missiles just hours apart North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a meeting of the political bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang (Image: via REUTERS) North Korea has said…

SEOUL - South Korea's call to declare a formal end to the Korean War is premature as there is no guarantee it would lead to the withdrawal of the "US hostile policy" towards Pyongyang, North Korea state media KCNA reported on Friday (Sept 24), citing Foreign Vice-Minister Ri Thae Song.…

(Variety) A battalion of producers and stars worked the opening night red carpet of the Beijiing Intl. Film Festival Tuesday for the world premiere of their mammoth Chinese war film “The Battle of Changjin Lake,” which is expected to rank amongst China’s highest grossing films of the year.The nearly three-hour-long historical…

North Korean artillery explodes on Yeonpyeong Island in 2010. South Korea defense ministry In the 11 years since North Korea torpedoed the South Korean warship Cheonan, killing 46 sailors, the South Korean government has strengthened its forces and worked out a new retaliatory policy. Now when Pyongyang provokes, Seoul provokes…

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(THR) The Beijing International Film Festival, the Chinese government’s flagship cinema event, has been postponed amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases in the country caused by the spread of the delta variant.The Beijing festival is typically held in April, but organizers pushed back the event this year in hopes that by…

Highly-anticipated mainland Chinese film “The Battle at Lake Changjin,” which was due to have been released later this month has been postponed to an unspecified date. The move, announced late on Thursday, was caused by a recent resurgence in COVID-19 cases in China. The film is a Korean War epic…

Three times this year, the hermit kingdom’s Kim has indicated his country is in trouble, raising the spectre of the deadly ‘Arduous March’ of the 1990s Sealed borders, severe weather, and the presumed spread of Covid-19 have combined to create a ‘gravely serious’ humanitarian situation, say observers Read More