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Kim wants another Trump summit to speed North Korea's denuclearization and declare end to war: Moon
North Korea's Kim Jong Un wants a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump soon to hasten denuclearization, but a key goal is declaring an end this year to the 1950-53 Korean War, the South's President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday. Moon said he and ...
U.S. eyes October talks with North Korea on hunt for remains of war dead
The U.S. hopes to begin face-to-face negotiations with North Korea next month on terms for resuming on-the-ground searches in North Korea for remains of American servicemen, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. Kelly McKeague, director of the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency, said the aim is ...
At the heart of the nuclear impasse with North Korea is a seemingly straightforward demand by both North and South for a formal end to the Korean War. It appears reasonable, on its face. While there's been occasional, sometimes serious violence since the war ended in ...
U.S. IDs two Korean War dead from remains handed over by Pyongyang
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says that two Korean War dead have been identified from remains turned over to the U.S. in July by North Korea. Mattis told Pentagon reporters Tuesday that experts moved swiftly on analyzing those two sets of remains, as they thought they ...
First two U.S. troops from North Korean remains will be identified soon, officials say
The U.S. military is close to identifying the first two American troops from the 55 boxes of human remains from the 1950-53 Korean War that were handed over by North Korea in July, U.S. officials leading the forensic analysis said on Monday. "The IDs will ...
After 70 years apart, Korean brothers' 12-hour reunion 'way too short'
Ninety-three-year-old Ham Sung-chan's eyes widen with excitement as he describes the shock and euphoria of reuniting with his baby brother, now 79, during three days of family reunions in North Korea. But there's a deep and bitter regret, too, and it stems from a simple ...
South Korean abductee families look on amid Korean War family reunions
As a lucky few Korean families meet decades after being divided by war, Hwang In-cheol looks on lamenting the absence of his father, whose plane was hijacked by the North. Hwang was only two when his father Won left for a business trip in 1969, ...
Dozens of elderly South Koreans crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea on Monday for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives most haven't seen since they were separated by the turmoil of the Korean War. The weeklong event at North Korea's Diamond Mountain resort comes as ...
Korean family reunions to start again, but heartache remains
The first reunions in years of families divided by the Korean War evoke bittersweet memories for Kim Jong-gyu, whose few hours with her brother in 2014 — under the watchful eyes of the North's agents — were probably their last ever together. "I felt so ...
Australia has pressed North Korea over the remains of 43 soldiers still missing after the Korean War in a rare encounter between the two nations, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Tuesday. Some 17,000 Australians fought as part of the United Nations multinational force defending South ...
Mike Pence on hand for return, with one dog tag, of presumed Korean War dead
Decades after the end of the Korean War in 1953, the remains of dozens of presumed U.S. war returned Wednesday to Hawaii for analysis and identification. The U.S. military believes the bones are those of U.S. servicemen and potentially servicemen from other United Nations ...
Why the Korean War armistice still matters
Sixty-five years later, it still shapes politics and diplomacy.
