Korean War

Which way are we headed??? Getty Economic indicators continue to encourage both enthusiasm and despair. As evidence of the latter, the Purchasing Managers Index for manufacturing was below 50 for the sixth consecutive month, suggesting that industry expects…

Yves here. This article gives important and depressing context into how armed conflict, far more often than people realize, tips into deadly wars. By Bear F. Braumoeller, Baranov and Timashev Chair in Data Analytics and Professor of Political Science, The Oh…

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday said he hopes to see North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fulfill a promise to visit the South this year and called for the Koreas to end a prolonged freeze in bilateral relations. In his New Year's speech, Moon also …

Despite the claims of optimists, the odds that an international conflict will snowball into a bloody war haven’t gone down significantly since the end of World War II. Trump administration officials’ confidence that the present conflict with Iran can be manag…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday said he hopes to see North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fulfill a promise to visit the South this year and called for the Koreas to end a prolonged freeze in bilateral relations. In his New Y…

Key Point: The Chinese Navy is growing. What are they going to use it for? The Peoples Liberation Army Navymore commonly known outside of China as the Chinese Navyis modernizing at a breakneck pace. Chinese shipbuilders have built more than one hundred warsh…

In the hours since the Trump administration announced that the high-ranking Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani had been killed in a U.S. airstrike, Americans wondered: Does this mean war? And for young people, there was a follow-up: Would I have to go? The i…

(Original Caption) New York Yankee's pitcher Don Larsen delivers a third-strike pitch to dodger ... pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell for the final out in the first perfect game in World Series history here. Second baseman Billy Martin stands in front of the sco…

By: Reuters | Published: December 31, 2019 9:39:41 am North Korea has withdrawn its women’s soccer team from the final round of 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualifiers. (Representational Image)North Korea has withdrawn its women’s soccer team from the final round o…

Key point: The history of the Korean War could help explain why disarming Pyongyang may, in the end, prove to be an impossible job. Can the United States and North Korea arrive at a dealany dealon denuclearization, normalization of relations, or at the very …