Korean War

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…

By Josh Smith and Hyonhee ShinSEOUL (Reuters) - Both North and South Korea violated the armistice agreement that governs their shared border when their troops exchanged gunfire on May 3, the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) said on Tuesday.A multinational UNC special investigation team concluded that troops from both sides…

Joe Biden ventured out of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, for his first brief public event in two months on Monday, to observe Memorial Day. Accompanied by his wife Dr. Jill Biden, he laid a flower wreath at Wilmington Memorial Park. The Bidens, who both wore black masks, placed the…

⚡️ Read the full article on MotoriousSure, they'd be great for off-roading, but both of these former military vehicles would be ideal for parade duty.Memorial Day parades an excellent way for us to honor the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S. military. While classic cars…

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to build 2,000 new ventilators for coronavirus patients that even the government says hospitals are unlikely to need. Instead, the plan, announced in April, appears to be more about bringing home manufacturing of equipment seen as key to the country’s…

Army musical “Return: The Promise of the Day” (literal title) has dropped individual posters of its cast members! “Return: The Promise of the Day” is an original army musical that deals with the topic of excavating the remains of the heroic soldiers who sacrificed themselves to protect their country during the Korean…

Keith Clark is a PhD candidate in East Asian history at Northwestern University who specializes in modern Chinese history. In his dissertation, “Defining China: Beijing, Taipei, and the United Nations’ ‘China Seat,’ 1949-1992,” Keith examines how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of China (ROC) competed to represent “China” after 1949,…

This past year, as Stephen Mastropietro agonized over whether to put his father in a nursing home. His father, a 91-year-old Korean War veteran, was struggling with dementia and loneliness, and had stopped eating. Mastropietro finally decided to place his father in the Veterans Memorial Home in Paramus, N.J., and he…

You might be craving those loud, brash, blowed-up-real-good blockbusters that’d normally lay claim to half the screens of multiplexes this month. It’s almost the beginning of summer, and who has the willpower to fight that seasonal Pavlovian urge? (Just watch out for any action movie in which A-list stars are…

According to an old saying, "luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." And while no one likes to think of a pandemic as an opportunity, one company, Zoom, appears to have prepared for a moment like this where it has the opportunity to scale to meet the demand of…