In the 10 years he has been digging up ordnance from the Korean War, Maj. Jong Il Hyon has lost five colleagues to explosions. He carries a lighter one gave him before he died. He also bears a scar on his left cheek from ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed Wednesday his nation will "demonstrate its mettle to the U.S." and never put its weapons programs up for negotiations, a day after successfully testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile. The hard line suggests that North Korea will conduct ...
South Korea marked the anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 Korean War on Sunday with a call for the North to halt development of its missiles and nuclear programs. "The North continues provocative military actions such as launching a ballistic missile," South Korean Prime ...
The South Korean military said Wednesday that dozens of plastic bags containing North Korea's propaganda leaflets were discovered in a river near Seoul. An official of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said there have been previous cases in which North Korea sent such ...
The remains of a Korean War soldier have been flown back to the U.S. more than six decades after he disappeared in what became South Korea. The San Francisco Chronicle reports (bit.ly/1Wf75dI) that Army Cpl. Robert Graham disappeared after Chinese forces attacked his combat battalion ...
The new U.N. sanctions on North Korea are out, and they are going to pinch Pyongyang hard. But they also beg a big question: Since sanctions thus far have failed to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, are tougher ones really ...
The remains of a formerly missing U.S. soldier have been returned to California nearly 65 years after he went missing in the Korean War, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported. The remains of Army Cpl. Robert V. Witt, a 20-year-old Bellflower man, were returned earlier this ...
Over the weekend, scores of Koreans on both sides of the border held reunions with family members divided by the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended some six decades ago. Most have not seen each other since then — and may never do so again. This is ...
Amid growing controversy over moves by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration toward allowing Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, an 88-year-old man wants people to know the story of his younger brother, who he says is the only Japanese man killed serving ...
A day after arriving home to California, the 85-year-old U.S. veteran detained for weeks by North Korea said Sunday that he was well-fed and kept comfortable in a hotel room, not a jail cell. Merrill Newman spoke briefly with the Santa Cruz Sentinel outside his ...
An 85-year-old U.S. veteran being held in North Korea spent his war years there in one of the Army's first special forces unit, helping a clandestine group of Korean partisans who were fighting and spying well behind enemy lines.
President Barack Obama praised veterans of the Korean War at a ceremony Saturday marking the anniversary of the armistice, using their return to an apathetic America decades ago as a promise to better care for the generation that is returning from distant battlefields today. After ...
