...that I feel like my service contributed something."The United States and the Soviet Union divided control of the Korean peninsula after World War II. War broke out June 25, 1950, when the North Korean army invaded the South by crossing the dividing...
...become our best selves.The results are as evident as they'd be in a laboratory.Ever see a satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night? South Korea is lit up like a Christmas tree. North Korea's land mass is as dim as the country's leadership...
...A native of Spindale, N.C., Goode joined the Army in 1948 and was deployed to the growing conflict in the Korean peninsula in 1950 with a speciality in communications. Days after arriving, Goode survived a shell explosion that blew apart...
...easy 9-to-5 job that allowed him to commute from home.In the summer of 1950, hostilities broke out on the Korean peninsula. Bowen, by then a 19-year-old sergeant, was among the first American troops to be shipped overseas. By November...
...connectivity of the Internet. When that liberating tsunami of human connectedness will wash over the rest of the Korean peninsula is anyone's guess.Our friends in North Korea desperately need their status updated.This editorial department...
Hyo Gyum-Kim doesn't expect much to change on the Korean peninsula after the death of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il."It's big news, of course," said Hyo, who is from South Korea and...
Anyone whose views toward communism have softened since the end of the Cold War needs to study the Korean peninsula.History and happenstance have provided us with a living laboratory of human ideology: North Korea, where the world's strictest...
...stalemate and armistice, are covered in a few paragraphs. Most glaringly, the war of The Coldest Winter plays out on a Korean peninsula seemingly emptied of its common people, in a landscape where armed men kill only one another. In reality, scholars...
...and national security adviser Tom Donilon discussed several foreign policy issues Tuesday.Rising tensions on the Korean peninsula likely were on the agenda because of Carter's expertise with the region, and his recent visit to North Korea where...
...Israel eased the blockade.The Middle East neared year's end with no major flare-up of violence, but on the Korean peninsula, hostilities worsened. In March a South Korean warship was sunk with 46 lives lost -- South Korea accused North...
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