Korean War

Veteran Hollywood producer David Foster died Monday. He was 90 years old. Foster’s career spanned 60 years and he produced such films as McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Getaway, and John Carpenters’ The Thing. Foster began his career as a publicist representing …

Key point: The relatively long period indicates Pyongyang is not particularly interested in stirring the pot and instigating a military crisis while it continues to improve its nuclear weapons and missile programs. In 2010, North Korea sank a South Korean wa…

Key point: American military authorities feared that an escalation of the war would make the situation on the peninsula untenable. In 1950, as U.S. forces retreated from Chinas onslaught across the Yalu River, General Douglas MacArthur called for strategic a…

Key point: The Korean DMZ is almost certainly the most heavily armed place on Earth. The current demarcation line between North and South Korea was settled by the Korean Armistice Agreement of July 1953. The two sides agreed on a demilitarized zone approxima…

Key point: It is estimated that about 6,000 Chinese attacked the defenders at Kapyong. The Chinese always attacked at night. It was April 22, 1951, and the Communists had just launched the largest offensive of the Korean War. Nearly 350,000 troops, spread ou…

As legislators looked into the matter, officials admitted that the two fishermen, ages 22 and 23, submitted hand-written statements in which they said they hoped to defect to South Korea. (AP)Written by Choe Sang-Hun In early November, two North Korean fishe…

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States failed on Wednesday to reach an agreement over Seoul’s contribution towards hosting some 28,500 U.S. troops, ending two days of talks that were the last before their existing deal expires on Dec. 31. South…

Key Point: We don't know exactly what would have happened, but it would have deepened American fears about a Communist takeover. Would the Cold War have been hotter? Would fifty thousand American soldiers have lost their lives? Would todays Americans worry t…

After the Korean War ended in 1953, many war refugees and other impoverished people moved to the rapidly developing urban centers and began squatting, often on hillsides. These downtrodden, gritty neighbourhoods came to be known as “moon villages” or daldongn…

Key Point: Without China's intervention, Douglas MacArthur would have conquered the Korean peninsula and saved the United States from two years of war. On June 25, 1950, the North Korean Peoples Army (NKPA) under Marshal Kim Il-sung launched a no-notice inva…