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Stuff.co.nz
April 28, 2018
Korean-expat Han Chong-uk is 65 years old and the only Korea he has ever known is a Korea at war. When the announcement was made on Friday the leaders of North and South Korea had agreed to formally end the state of war between the two countries by the end of the year, he didn't know what to feelÃâà...
Deadline
April 27, 2018
Minutes earlier, however, Trump had tweeted more temperately of the summit between North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un and South Korea's Moon Jae In that “only time will tell” if a deal results from the “historic meeting between North and South Korea” happening Friday morning “after a furious year ofÃâà...
CNBC
April 27, 2018
Korean leaders declare end of the Korean war. 11 Hours Ago. CNBC's Eunice Yoon has the latest developments on the denuclearization goal between South Korea's President Moon Jae-In, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
CNBC
April 27, 2018
The leaders of North and South Korea have pledged to jointly eliminate the risk of war and work together to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The joint statement Friday, from the border truce village of Panmunjom, concluded a historic one-day bilateral summit aimed at achievingÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 27, 2018
GOYANG, South Korea—The leaders of North and South Korea agreed to pursue a peace agreement in historic talks on Friday, but steered clear of specifics on the question of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons, leaving uncertainties about the regime's willingness to cede ground on its arsenal ahead of aÃâà...
NPR
April 27, 2018
Because we should remind people that these two countries have been at war formally since the 1950s, even though most of the shooting stopped then. And yet there are statements that suggest that they have now agreed to end the war. The president, President Trump, has even tweeted, Korean War toÃâà...
Today.com
April 27, 2018
North and South Korea agree to formally end the Korean War. Overnight, North and South Korea came to a historic agreement vowing to formally end the Korean War after 65 years of conflict. NBC chief global correspondent Bill Neely reports live for TODAY from the DMZ.
Esquire.com
April 27, 2018
(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post of The Week From The Blog's Favorite Living Canadian). I have to admit that seeing the leaders of North and South Korea shaking hands and deciding that the Korean War should end was not something I was expecting to see. But I'm a little surprisedÃâà...
New York Times
April 27, 2018
Kim Jong-un and President Moon Jae-in also said they would declare an official end to the 1950-53 Korean War by the end of this year. The agreement came after Mr. Kim crossed the world's most heavily armed border zone, becoming the first North Korean leader to set foot in South Korean-controlledÃâà...
CNBC
April 27, 2018
Korean leaders pledge to end war. 11 Hours Ago. CNBC's Eunice Yoon provide highlights of the meeting between South Korea's President Moon Jae-In, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
New York Times
April 26, 2018
This week's meeting between Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, and his South Korean counterpart, President Moon Jae-in, seeks to ease decades-long tensions that flared into geopolitical conflict during the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. A particularly brutal conflict, it took the lives of an estimated threeÃâà...
CNBC
April 17, 2018
North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official. Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un andÃâà...
Eater
April 5, 2018
As one of the most iconic Korean dishes, army base stew, or budae jjigae, has a colorful history. In the aftermath of the war, American servicemen and troops were stationed in South Korea to prevent invasion. Resourceful Koreans had heard that these bases had a surplus of canned meats that often endedÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 25, 2018
Trump is likely to ratchet up tensions with Iran and North Korea in reaction to, or in prevention of, a blue wave. Of course, Trump would need the unlikely approval of Congress for any major intervention, but the intervention does not have to be on a regular armed conflict. It could also be in the cyber realm.
Sky News
March 24, 2018
Panmunjom was chosen as the one place where officials from both sides could meet after the Korean War ended in a truce in 1953. Neither side has jurisdiction. Instead, the area is administered by the United Nations Command. The main purpose of next week's talks will be to prepare for an inter-KoreanÃâà...
CNN
March 23, 2018
Bolton also publicly accused Cuba of providing "dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states." Years later, after leaving his post as ambassador to the UN, he pushed to expand the Iraq War into Iran. More recently, he's pushed for unilateral strikes in Iran and North Korea, while casting doubt on Russia'sÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
Among Bolton's recently published opinions, is a piece a month ago in the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Legal Case for Striking North Korea First”. While the 2015 agreement with Iran was being negotiated, he wrote a piece decrying the whole exercise in the New York Times. That was headlined: “ToÃâà...
Newsweek
March 22, 2018
The U.S. military has scheduled a mass evacuation drill coinciding with next month's annual joint war games on the Korean Peninsula, where the exercises are expected to raise tensions at a time of rare calm between the region's longtime rivals. As part of a maneuver to practice evacuating more thanÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 13, 2018
Tillerson's attempts to pare back his department's “inefficiencies” chased 60 percent of America's top-ranking diplomats out of government – and depressed new applications to the foreign service by half. He leaves the State Department demoralized and understaffed, in a moment when the United States isÃâà...
Common Dreams
March 3, 2018
While advocates for peace and diplomacy remain anxious over incendiary rhetoric from U.S. war hawks, the North Korean government responded on Saturday to recent calls for talks as well as upcoming joint military drills by the United States and South Korea by rejecting U.S. preconditions for negotiationsÃâà...
CNN
March 3, 2018
One concern is that China could respond to a more focused American trade campaign by slowing its cooperation on implementing sanctions against North Korea, a key component of the Trump administration's "maximum pressure campaign" to bring Pyongyang to the negotiating table over its nuclearÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 3, 2018
Related articles. Is May up to this? Farage reacts to PM's latest Brexit speech Ãâ÷ Mid-air emergency declared on Delta flight from Rome Ãâ÷ BRITISH GRIT: Royal Marines push huge lorry stranded in the snow Ãâ÷ North Korea World War 3Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 2, 2018
A war with North Korea could result in about 10,000 American combat-related casualties in the first few days alone, according to US military planners. A classified military exercise last week, attended by Army chief of staff General Mark Milley and head of Special Operations Command General Tony ThomasÃâà...
Newsweek
March 1, 2018
The U.S. has reportedly conducted secret war games devised to simulate a war with North Korea, which has defied international calls to disarm its nuclear weapons program. The so-called "tabletop exercise" was held over several days last week in Hawaii and was overseen by top brass, including ArmyÃâà...
New York Times
March 1, 2018
WASHINGTON — A classified military exercise last week examined how American troops would mobilize and strike if ordered into a potential war on the Korean Peninsula, even as diplomatic overtures between the North and the Trump administration continue. The war planning, known as a “tabletopÃâà...
Newsweek
February 28, 2018
Russia's top diplomat has warned about the massive loss of life and humanitarian crisis that would occur if the U.S. took military action against nuclear-armed North Korea. Addressing Geneva's Conference on Disarmament, Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his country sought a peaceful solutionÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 25, 2018
"But the US brought the threat of war to the Korean Peninsula with large-scale new sanctions on the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) ahead of the Olympics closing ceremony." The US government announced the new sanctions, which aim to prevent North Korea from further developing itsÃâà...
Newsweek
February 11, 2018
As the 2018 winter Olympics opened in Pyeongchang, South Korea, dozens of miles south of the heavily fortified border that has divided the Korean peninsula for more than half a century, 22 athletes from North joined the South Korean team under a blue and white “unification” flag. South Korean PresidentÃâà...
Vox
February 7, 2018
3 official at the Pentagon during the Obama administration, who has helped shape US policy toward North Korea since 1993. It was a chilling conversation. Stavridis said there was at least a 10 percent chance of a nuclear war between the US and North Korea, and a 20 to 30 percent chance of aÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
On the heels of President Donald Trump's on-the-spot acceptance to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Pentagon said that annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises will begin April 1. The Pentagon added that the drills will be on a "scale similar to that of the previous years," after reportsÃâà...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
SEOUL, South Korea — A North Korean envoy making an uncommon visit to South Korea said Sunday that his country was willing to open talks with the United States, a rare step toward diplomacy between enemies after a year of North Korean missile and nuclear tests and direct threats of war from bothÃâà...
