This week, U.S. soldier Travis King crossed the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, which separates South Korea and North Korea. He is believed to be in the custody of North Korean forces.
What life is like on the $11 billion US military base right next to the North Korean borderAlyssa PaganoBrennan Weiss
After a number of border skirmishes over disputed territory, the North Korean Army invaded South Korea in June, 1950. United Nations forces, led by the United States responded by landing troops and pushing the North Korean Army back to the northernmost part of the peninsula. Fearing the U.S...
needed it. These Chinese and Korean soldiers were also…show more content… At this point in time, the US andSoviet Unionwere in sort of a stalemate. This was known as theCold War. The US and USSR watched each other’s every move. One way of doing this was through air surveillance. ...
King (wearing a black shirt and black cap) is seen in this picture taken during a tour of the tightly controlled Joint Security Area (JSA) on the border between the two Koreas, at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea, July 18, 2023. Sarah Leslie/Hando...
North Korean leaders apparently believe that the closure of the border is an opportunity to strengthen the state-centered economic system, and it plans to adopt vaccines and open the border only after efforts to bring the economy back under state control are completed. ...
Israel is competing but was told to change the title of its song, originally called "October Rain" in an apparent reference to Hamas' Oct. 7 cross-border attack. It's now called "Hurricane" and is performed by 20-year-old singer Eden Golan. Eden Golan from Israel with the song "Hurric...
It is unclear what the measures would be, but a South Korean government official said that they are preparing “diplomatic, economic and military measures.” As North Korea is in the “preliminary stage of deploying troops to Russia,” South Korea is assessing ...
Joseph Yang, 21, another first-generation American, also wants to see changes that go further than just security on the border itself. The son of South Korean immigrants, Yang said it was disheartening for him and his parents to see so many people entering the country illegally after they we...
“It isn’t 1948. It is 2024,” Austin said, seemingly drawing a parallel to women’s service and the desegregation of the U.S. military, which occurred in 1948. In a speech rife with references to his own combat experience in Iraq, where he earned the Silver Star, Austin called out...