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Search for North Korea MIAs Over Before It Began

Mark Russell — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:28:05 CDT

A program to recover the remains of the 5,500 American soldiers missing in North Korea from the Korean War has been shut down again, just two weeks after being announced , due to renewed tensions over North Korea's planned satellite launch , reports the New York Times . The US was going...

S. Korea Returns Remains of US Soldier

John Johnson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:35:05 CST

One more US soldier from the Korean War is coming home: South Korea today handed over the remains of an American killed in the early days of the war in 1950, reports the Korea Herald . The remains were found last year on a hill in South Chungcheong Province, and they...

North Korea Well Positioned for War: Report

Kevin Spak — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:54:43 CST

North Korea’s offensive-minded military strategy is in some ways superior to South Korea’s defensive-minded one, and would give it an edge in the early days of an all-out war, a Korean-based think tank concludes in a new report. With 1.2 million military personnel and a record number of tanks,...

US to North Korea: Help Us Find Fallen Soldiers

Kevin Spak — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:15:38 CDT

The US recovered the remains of some 220 US troops killed in the Korean War when recovery teams were allowed access to North Korea from 1996 to 2005, but the Bush administration then ended the program over fears for the teams’ safety. Now, for the first time in six years,...

US Vets Unveil Agent Orange Dumping Ground in Korea

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:51:14 CDT

Some 33 years after they buried up to 250 rusting 55-gallon barrels stamped "Agent Compound Orange" in a South Korean ditch, three American soldiers are pointing US and South Korean authorities to the location of the dumping ground. Their story has set off a media firestorm in South Korea, fueling...

Korean War POW Finally Buried After 60 Years

Fri, 27 May 2011 08:50:05 CDT

For 60 years, Artie Hodapp's family agonized over a heart-rending mystery: Where had the young man, known for his rollicking sense of humor, come to rest after dying in the Korean War? The answer was among 17 boxes of remains that the North Koreans turned over nearly two decades ago....

N. Korea Warns of More Strikes

Rob Quinn — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:03:12 CST

North Korea has warned it will attack the South again if it carries out any "reckless military provocations." The statement from a North Korean military delegation—which promised "second and third strong physical retaliations without hesitation"—didn't specifically mention the US-South Korea joint military exercises set to begin on Sunday,...

North Korea: US Owes Us $65T

Kevin Spak — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:10:00 CDT

With the 60th anniversary of the Korean War fast approaching, cash-strapped North Korea is demanding that the US pay it nearly $65 trillion to repay it for the damage caused by those decades of hostility, the AFP reports. According to the regime's inscrutable math, the US owes $26.5 trillion...

Guess Which War Has the Best Movies

John Johnson — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:05:00 CDT

The new Steven Spielberg-Tom Hanks series The Pacific got the folks at New York magazine's the Vulture blog wondering which war has produced the best movies. They looked up every one they could think of at Rotten Tomatoes, then averaged the scores. The winner: the Civil War. Here are the...