Korean War

Image copyright AFP Image caption North Korean students held a rally to denounce defectors on Monday North Korea has said it will cut off all inter-Korean communication lines with the South, including a hotline between the two nations' leaders.The North said this was the first in a series of actions,…

On June 30, 1983, the Korean television channel KBS 1 intended to air a 45-minute live special that followed families displaced by Japanese colonization, World War II, and the Korean War. The program, aptly titled Finding Dispersed Families, showed these families as they tried to reunite with their separated loved…

Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi joined the DC Protest mob on Wednesday in Washington DC.This is two days after the torched historic St. John’s Church and desecrated the Lincoln Memorial and Korean War Memorial. And US Park Police even found stashes of weapons planted for the protesters near the White House.…

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Image copyright Getty Images It's an uncanny and almost tragically perfect piece of symmetry.The number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - over an aggregate 44 years of fighting - is almost exactly the same as the number of Americans who've now lost their…

(Reuters) - The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from more than two months of lockdowns. About 1,400 Americans have died on average…

South Korea’s position as one of the world’s most innovative nations is a remarkable achievement considering that, for the first half of the twentieth century, it was an agrarian-based Japanese colony, then a battle ground.It is second only to Germany in Bloomberg’s 2020 Innovation Index, having reigned at the top…

Skip to content Incident involved multiple gunshots hitting a guard post across DMZ In early May, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that they had taken action after multiple gunshots were fired from North Korea, hitting Seoul’s guard post inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).In a press release on…

A U.N. investigation into a recent exchange of gunfire between the two Koreas says both countries violated an armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean WarMay 26, 2020, 10:12 AM2 min readSEOUL, South Korea -- A U.N. investigation into a recent exchange of gunfire between the two Koreas has determined that…

North and South Korea violated the armistice agreement that governs their shared border when their troops exchanged gunfire earlier this month, according to the US-led United Nations Command (UNC).Key points:North and South Korean troops fired at each other on May 3It broke an armistice agreement between the two countries, which…