Korean War

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, decades of separation and unaligned socio-economic development, brought several differences between East and West Berlin to the fore. The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that cut across and divided the city of Berlin fro…

Friday marks the 12th annual women veterans appreciation ceremony in the Hall of Flags at the State House. One female veteran will receive the Deborah Sampson Award, named for the Massachusetts native who disguised herself as a man in order to fight during th…

The survey, titled “The Situation in Northeast Asia and South Koreans’ Perception,” found that 45.5 percent of respondents would support North Korea, while just 15.1 percent would support Japan, while 39.4 were undecided.  The survey, which was carried out b…

In observance of Veterans day, which intends to honor the service of former U.S. military personnel, some U.S. markets will be open and some closed next Monday. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma), has recommended the bond-marke…

            Economic sanctions are a central instrument of U.S. foreign policy.  They are a tactic short of war designed to shape the…

This approaching Nov. 11 will be Veterans Day. What is the history and law that established this day as a holiday? The holiday date is rooted in the date of the cease-fire ending the First World War between Germany and the Western Allies on Nov. 11, 1918. Th…

The accumulating negative data on the economy has everyone pressing their nose against the window, watching for the next indicator. This week has been particularly tense, with releases on GDP, Real Gross Private Domestic Investment, the ADP employment report,…

Beverage companies can go to great lengths to keep their goods flowing, especially when they run afoul of international geopolitics. In the Soviet Union, Pepsi accepted payment for cola concentrate in warships that it could sell for scrap, leading to reams of…

On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect…

The Stockholm meeting was an effort to resume denuclearization talks that had stalled since the collapse of the second summit meeting between Mr. Trump and North Koreas leader, Kim Jong-un, in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February. That meeting foundered on disagreem…