• The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) was an organization founded on March 15, 1995, by the United States, South Korea, and Japan to implement the 1994 U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework that froze North Korea's indigenous nuclear power plant development centered at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, that was suspected of being a step in a nuclear weapons program. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through the exercise, the South Korean and U.S. air forces have demonstrated the alliance's strong will and capability for strong retaliation against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats," the South Korean military said in the statement, adding that the exercise also improved the two air forces' readiness to deploy "a rapid-response force. (newsweek.com)
  • A piece in North Korea's ruling party's mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun on Tuesday accused the U.S. of trying to provoke a second Korean war and of planning a pre-emptive strike. (newsweek.com)
  • North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said in September the country reserved the right to shoot down U.S. B-1B bombers-which no longer carry nuclear weapons, despite North Korea's claims to the contrary-even if these weren't entering the North Korean airspace. (newsweek.com)
  • A few weeks ago, when Donald Trump abruptly canceled his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, the American president apparently forgot to give a heads-up to our South Korean allies. (msnbc.com)
  • And while it is common to speak of North Korea's "threat" to America, what precisely is the danger? (nationalinterest.org)
  • The programs aim to contribute to a peaceful resolution of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, including research and dialogue exchanges on the complex foreign policy issues facing Korea, neighboring countries, and the United States. (asiafoundation.org)
  • Today, with the collapse of negotiations threatening to further strain US-North Korea relations and increase tensions on the Korean Peninsula, a more earnest and sober discussion about how to build mutual confidence, enhance stability, and strengthen peace is all the more important. (usip.org)
  • Due to their scale and provocative nature, the annual U.S.-South Korea combined exercises have long been a trigger point for heightened military and political tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Unfortunately, if the Biden administration chooses to go through with the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises in March, it will likely sabotage any prospect of diplomacy with North Korea in the near future, heighten geopolitical tensions, and risk reigniting a war on the Korean Peninsula, which would be catastrophic. (consortiumnews.com)
  • On all sides, the ongoing tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been used to justify massive military spending. (consortiumnews.com)
  • The most interesting and significant part in the statement is the diplomatic support that the three countries have lent to what they called "five-power talks" to end "tensions" in the Korean Peninsula. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Needless to say, rising tensions between China and the United States, of late, are a complicating factor, but agreeing on denuclearising the Korean Peninsula in the context of a regional approach could help the Americans and the Chinese reduce these tensions. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Travis King's case comes at a time of high tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (timesleaderonline.com)
  • Amid greatly eased tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang also released three American prisoners in May, as well as a South Korean detainee this month. (worldbulletin.net)
  • However, it is easy for the Trump administration to make bold statements because North Korea is far from mainland America. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged during their historic meeting in Singapore to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. (syr.edu)
  • Of course, Trump changed direction soon after, un-canceled the summit, and ended up agreeing to scrap scheduled joint U.S./South Korean military exercises. (msnbc.com)
  • We need to try to understand what President Trump said,' a spokesman for South Korean President Moon Jae-in said. (msnbc.com)
  • Trump also held a press conference before leaving Singapore, and in response to a question about the cancellation of the military exercise, the American president offered some not-so-subtle criticism of his ostensible allies. (msnbc.com)
  • Just a few months into his presidency, Trump lied about dispatching an "armada," led by an aircraft carrier, towards the peninsula, and South Koreans weren't pleased . (msnbc.com)
  • When Trump falsely said the Korean Peninsula "used to be a part of China," that didn't go over especially well , either. (msnbc.com)
  • In a recent declaration, seven leading Democratic senators continued this disregard for the interests of Koreans themselves in this nominally inter-Korean conflict with their demand that President Trump hold to a hard line in any negotiations with North Korea. (fpif.org)
  • Can Biden Really Bring America 'Back' After Trump? (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • For Trump, the fight is a simple matter of protecting the profits of rich American companies against what he sees as a European cash grab. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Joe Biden's election as president offers the United States an opportunity to recast its relationship with the United Nations after four years of "America First" disengagement under Donald Trump. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The policy of the Trump administration is to deny North Korea the capability to hit America with a nuclear-tipped missile, not to contain it. (therealnews.com)
  • On June 12, 2018, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recommitted to recovering and immediately repatriating the remains of prisoners of war and soldiers declared missing in action during the Korean War as part of a denuclearization agreement signed in Singapore. (militaryconnection.com)
  • Immediately after Mr Pompeo had finished his trip to the North Korean capital, President Donald Trump tweeted that he would meet Chairman Kim after the US midterm elections scheduled for 6 November, less than four weeks from now. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Donald Trump, you're asking Americans to trust you with their future. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • SIC Trump has sacrificed the honor and patriotism of a true American hero, Captain Humayun Khan, on the trash heap of his neo-fascist creed. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • Indeed, before he even put his hand on the Bible, Trump seemed to be offering America the promise of a wild and unruly foreign policy adventure ride never experienced before. (politico.com)
  • Ending this war is the only way to achieve permanent peace and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Agreed Framework of 21 October 1994 Between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • Yet, in order to reach this, it is essential that the leading powers of America, China, and the Russian Federation work together in order to utilize influences over Japan, North Korea, and South Korea respectively. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • In other words, hawks in America and North Korea - and Abe must put the people of Japan first instead of any notions of nationalism - need to be contained by China, South Korea, and a pragmatic Japan. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • Yet, like China alluded to in the area of THAAD being deployed in South Korea, it is important for America to listen to the geopolitical concerns of China and the Russian Federation. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • Similarly, China understands that in North Korea the political and military elites of this nation feel threatened by endless joint war games by America and South Korea. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • North Korea condemned the exercises, planned before Pyongyang tested a new, more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a launch on November 29, as pushing the peninsula "to the brink of nuclear war. (newsweek.com)
  • South Korea and the United States should rein in North Korean nuclear weapon production and prepare to respond to escalated North Korean coercion. (rand.org)
  • He then said he wants to deploy a missile-defense system - Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense (Thaad) - in South Korea to help protect against a North Korean attack, but only if South Korea pays for the technology . (msnbc.com)
  • One of our South Korea colleagues commented that while women have been conspicuously absent from the process of war-making in the Korean peninsula (at least from a policy standpoint) they most certainly ought to be part of the peace process. (fpif.org)
  • San Francisco, August 1, 2018 - On July 30th, The Asia Foundation, in collaboration with UC Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies and Center for Korean Studies, hosted a conversation "Recent Developments on the Korean Peninsula and Prospects for U.S.-Korea Relations" with Dr. Jin Park, president of Korean-American Association and Asia Future Institute. (asiafoundation.org)
  • After brief introductions from The Asia Foundation President David D. Arnold , and former South Korea country representative Dylan Davis, Park shared his perspectives about the array of challenges facing the region following the developments on the Korean Peninsula. (asiafoundation.org)
  • MRAPs, the iconic vehicle of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, have arrived on the Korean peninsula, giving the U.S. and South Korea a new tool to keep the peace and respond to hostilities here. (stripes.com)
  • Asked if the MRAP testing was aimed at better preparing for potential provocations from North Korea, or for possible navigation someday through the heavily mined Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, 8th Army spokesman Col. Andrew Mutter said, “It’s about protecting our soldiers and seeing if this capability is right for Korea. (stripes.com)
  • Asked if the 2ID was concerned how North Korea might respond to the MRAP testing, Scrocca said, “The addition of MRAPs improves the 2nd Infantry Division’s force protection capabilities and enhances our ability to preserve peace and deter aggression on the Korean peninsula. (stripes.com)
  • The Korea JoongAng Daily recently reported the South Korean government had agreed to buy 2,000 refurbished MRAPs from the U.S. as part of an effort to better equip its military. (stripes.com)
  • SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: We're getting close to military conflict because North Korea is marching toward marrying up the technology of an ICBM with a nuclear weapon on top that can not only get to America but can deliver the weapon. (therealnews.com)
  • I think it's now time to start moving American dependents out of South Korea. (therealnews.com)
  • America has had troops in Germany and Japan since 1945 and in South Korea since the early 1950s. (jewishjournal.com)
  • A joint statement by the United States and North Korea in June 2018 declared that the two countries were committed to building "a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. (usip.org)
  • Six countries-North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China, Japan, and Russia-have substantial interests in a peace regime for the Korean Peninsula. (usip.org)
  • Since the 1950s, the U.S. has used the military exercises as a "show of force" to deter a North Korean attack on South Korea. (consortiumnews.com)
  • The U.S. and South Korea have also conducted massive joint military exercises, which provoked another cycle of North Korean missile launches in March. (inthesetimes.com)
  • In November 2022 , South Korea scrambled fighter jets in response to North Korean warplanes, and the U.S. sent an aircraft carrier in September 2022 to South Korea for the first time in years ​ " to join other military vessels in a show of force intended to send a message to North Korea. (inthesetimes.com)
  • More recently, the U.S. sent two nuclear submarines to South Korean waters for the first time in 42 years, causing North Korea to threaten possible nuclear retaliation. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Furthermore, due to the mutual defense treaties between the U.S. and South Korea, and between North Korea and China, a resurgence of conflict on the Korean Peninsula could impact millions of people - and potentially trigger a nuclear war. (inthesetimes.com)
  • South Korean President Moon Jae-in received US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday, 7 October, in Seoul after the latter had paid an official visit to North Korea where he had lengthy discussions with Chairman Kim Jong-un. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Taking the American assessment of the results of the latest round of high-level talks between the United States and North Korea into consideration, it would not be a surprise if the second American-North Korean summit would come up with, at least, a clear American commitment to declare, in the context of an agreed timetable with the North, the official end of the Korean War. (ahram.org.eg)
  • As a matter of fact, last week, the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, China and North Korea met in Moscow to coordinate their respective positions concerning the future of the Korean Peninsula in light of the ongoing talks between North Korea and the United States. (ahram.org.eg)
  • After meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping on three different occasions in less than a year now, meeting President Putin would strengthen the position of North Korea vis-à-vis Washington in the most crucial phase in negotiating the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. (ahram.org.eg)
  • It would be highly important if Washington would deal with the whole question of denuclearisation and peace on the Peninsula in the framework of a regional approach, rather than a bilateral one between the United States and North Korea. (ahram.org.eg)
  • The ambassador to South Korea also plays a vital role, representing Washington's interests to Seoul and getting insight into South Korean policy that can be useful in helping the president make decisions. (vox.com)
  • North Korea periodically admits large groups of American journalists, to witness parades and special occasions, but it is more hesitant when it comes to individual reporters, who require close monitoring and want to talk about the nuclear program. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Americans are accustomed to eruptions of hostility with North Korea, but in the past six months the enmity has reached a level rarely seen since the end of the Korean War, in 1953. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • On September 3rd, after North Korea tested a nuclear weapon far larger than any it had revealed before-seven times the size of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki-the U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, warned that a threat to America or its allies would trigger a " massive military response . (pulitzercenter.org)
  • After a brief period of nonalignment following its establishment in 1948, Israel supported the United States, the United Nations, and South Korea during the 1950-1953 Korean War. (jcpa.org)
  • 3 The Americans did not consult with Koreans in exile or with specialists on Korea when they recommended dividing the peninsula. (jcpa.org)
  • Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went one step further during the Korean War when he suggested that an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit be sent to join the UN forces fighting North Korea and the Chinese volunteers. (jcpa.org)
  • New films and books are pushing the theme that China was acting to defend Korea from an American invasion, a version too many American academics echo because after the initial North Korean attack was stopped and its army was routed, American forces advanced into North Korea to unite Korea on Western terms. (americanthinker.com)
  • Other Americans have entered North Korea over the years, including a few U.S. soldiers. (nashuatelegraph.com)
  • On Sunday, June 24, 1950, North Korean troops invaded South Korea with little warning. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • Eventually it's estimated that around 780,000 Chinese fought in Korea with a total force of 260,000 North Koreans. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • the withdrawal of American troops from the Korean peninsula. (msnbc.com)
  • Five MRAPs were flown to Osan then delivered to the 2nd Infantry Division, which will test the vehicles to see how they might be used by American troops on the Korean peninsula. (stripes.com)
  • U.S. military officials said 2ID will test more than 50 of the vehicles to see how they might be used by American troops here. (stripes.com)
  • The United States stations over 37,000 combat troops along the South Korean border. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Backed by the most technologically advanced weapons systems, the combination of U.S. and South Korean troops defend the South with confidence. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Most American Jews vigorously supported President Barack Obama's plan to remove all American troops from Iraq. (jewishjournal.com)
  • Whatever one thinks of the original American invasion of Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein, one of the cruelest tyrants of the late 20th century - and, it should be noted, one who paid $25,000 to families of Palestinian suicide bombers - what matters is that Iraq was relatively peaceful when American troops were removed. (jewishjournal.com)
  • The takeover of much of Iraq by the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, was made possible by the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq. (jewishjournal.com)
  • The annihilation of every Christian community in Iraq was made possible by the withdrawal of American troops, as was the slaughter of Yazidis and the enslavement of women and even young girls under the control of ISIS. (jewishjournal.com)
  • Thanks to American troops, those three countries have flourished as free and prosperous countries. (jewishjournal.com)
  • Whether the invasion was a good or bad idea, the fact is that Iraq was far freer after the invasion and within five years of "the surge" increasingly at peace - thanks to the American and Iraqi sacrifices in the war against violent Islamism and thanks to American troops remaining in Iraq for as long as they did. (jewishjournal.com)
  • So why have so many Jews, who should be the first to want to fight evil, opposed aiding South Vietnam and opposed keeping American troops in Iraq? (jewishjournal.com)
  • So if the administration wants to defuse the North Korean "threat," a reasonable desire, why not simply drop the security guarantee and bring home the troops? (nationalinterest.org)
  • Nearly 7,800 American troops remain unaccounted for from the 1950-53 war in the Korean Peninsula. (militaryconnection.com)
  • In 1950, the North Koreans attacked with over 90,000 troops and 150 tanks. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • President Truman immediately ordered Gen. Douglas MacArthur to send U.S. troops from Japan to protect Americans in Seoul, but just as quickly decided to approach the United Nations for a response. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • In the next couple of months, the North almost succeeded in pushing 45,000 South Korean troops and 50,000 Americans off the peninsula. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • In this dialogue, the four million Korean and 35,000 American lives lost to the Korean War, as well as the 80 million Koreans whose lives would hang in balance in any renewed conflict, are presented as mere footnotes. (fpif.org)
  • During the Korean War period, Hispanic Americans honorably served during the conflict. (navy.mil)
  • With the Vietnam War continuing into the decade, Hispanic Americans also continued to serve in the conflict. (navy.mil)
  • Most people could be forgiven for thinking the 73 -year-old Korean War - a conflict in which millions of people were killed - is completely over. (inthesetimes.com)
  • It did not settle the Korean conflict and ongoing division of the peninsula, which remains ongoing to this day. (inthesetimes.com)
  • President Xi has been preparing the Chinese people for conflict by conducting a series of events to celebrate China's supposed victory in a previous war of conquest: the Korean War (1950-53). (americanthinker.com)
  • The Korean War ended, not with a peace treaty, but with a United Nations-brokered armistice in 1953. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, few serious efforts have been made to achieve a comprehensive peace on the Korean Peninsula. (usip.org)
  • Speaking to CNN on the possibility of resuming hostilities in the nearly 70-year-old Korean War (in uneasy ceasefire since 1953), US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says "all the damage … would be worth it in terms of long-term stability and national security. (antiwar.com)
  • Israel's foreign policy underwent a change during the Korean War (1950-1953). (jcpa.org)
  • They also make sure that the resources of the departments they work in are being used to support the president's decisions and provide him with the best possible options for, say, dealing with a North Korean missile test. (vox.com)
  • The only positive for Pyongyang is a stronger relationship with China, which, given the latter's deteriorating relationship with America, is more likely to overlook accelerated missile tests and threatened nuclear test. (antiwar.com)
  • Hence, the electorate of both nations will hold the natural allies of America in the region accountable. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • It ought to be said at once, therefore, that the report is well worth the attention of every concerned American citizen, and, for that matter, of our allies abroad. (nybooks.com)
  • No single action is likely to deter North Korean nuclear weapon use. (rand.org)
  • An official with the South Korean Ministry of National Defense said Thursday no final decision about such a purchase have been made, so “we’re not quite sure where they might be deployed. (stripes.com)
  • U.S. and South Korean defense ministers have also agreed to continue the combined exercises, and Biden's secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken has said suspending them was a mistake. (consortiumnews.com)
  • You want leading subject matter experts running Asia policy in the Departments of State and Defense, and someone who knows the South Korean government well serving as ambassador in Seoul. (vox.com)
  • America's long misadventure on the Korean peninsula has only been worth it to US "defense" contractors and the politicians they own. (antiwar.com)
  • The crisis on the Korean peninsula needs calmness in the corridors of power in Washington and Pyongyang respectively. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • Mr Pompeo assured that Washington and Pyongyang continue "to make progress on agreements made at the Singapore Summit" - the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader, on 12 June. (ahram.org.eg)
  • The division of the peninsula was especially difficult for the South, which had trouble functioning independently since most of the heavy industry, mines, electrical production, and fertilizer industry were located in the North. (jcpa.org)
  • Some of these interests are arguably compatible, including the desire for a stable and nuclear-free Peninsula. (usip.org)
  • Kim Jong-un doesn't plan on shooting nuclear-tipped missiles at America. (nationalinterest.org)
  • People in those nations don't spend their lives cowering in bomb shelters, fearing the arrival of the triumphant Korean People's Army after a nuclear bombardment. (nationalinterest.org)
  • About a month ago, the United States flew nuclear-capable bombers above the Korean Peninsula and sent a nuclear-capable submarine to South Korean shores. (inthesetimes.com)
  • forward deployment of American forces, assigned to oppose invading armies and backed by strong reserves and a capability to use nuclear weapons if necessary. (nybooks.com)
  • In the first place, much of the American planning and force structure has been related to what the commission terms "extreme threats"-an extensive Warsaw Pact conventional attack upon the NATO Central Front and a strategic nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. (nybooks.com)
  • After all, American Jews hadn't opposed the Korean War, in which nearly 37,000 Americans and more than two million Koreans died. (jewishjournal.com)
  • An escalating war of words between Beijing and Seoul is raising pressure on South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to take a softer line with China. (rand.org)
  • NBC News added , "There is every indication from Seoul that the South Korean leadership and military did not know the U.S. was about to cancel Joint Military exercises. (msnbc.com)
  • Then-White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster quietly let officials in Seoul know they should ignore the American president's bluster. (msnbc.com)
  • On June 28, the South Korean capitol of Seoul fell. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • The fact that the Americans and the North Koreans agreed to hold a second summit that would bring their respective leaders face-to-face again in less than six months speaks volume of the progress achieved, in lower-level contacts between the two sides, on denuclearisation and the end results of what President Moon Jae-in rightly described as the "peace process" in the Korean Peninsula. (ahram.org.eg)
  • The letter - signed by Senators Bob Menendez, Chuck Schumer, Richard Durbin, Mark Warner, Diane Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, and Sherrod Brown - completely overlooked the recent progress toward peace of the inter-Korean summit and the Panmunjom Declaration, and discounted the overwhelming support for the current peace process by Koreans. (fpif.org)
  • An End-Of-War Declaration on the Korean Peninsula: Why Is It So Difficult? (mironline.ca)
  • Feltman held talks with North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myong Gun on Wednesday. (newsweek.com)
  • If this proves the case, then the stage is set for a multilateral peace process in the Korean Peninsula that would go beyond American-North Korean peace talks. (ahram.org.eg)
  • It then took part in military drills on the Korean Peninsula along with American and South Korean fighter jets, Bloomberg reported . (newsweek.com)
  • The B-1B bomber and F-22 Raptors conducted simulated bombing drills, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, quoting a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, adding that several American F-35 stealth jets and F-16 fighters and South Korean F-15Ks and KF-16s joined the exercise at the Pilsung firing range in the northeastern Gangwon province. (newsweek.com)
  • Together all three nations find a common enemy in Western society, namely America. (thetrumpet.com)
  • South Korean soldiers, front, and North Korean soldiers, rear, stand guard on either side of the Military Demarcation Line of the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two nations. (usip.org)
  • That excludes the off-peninsula costs of the US "security umbrella" covering other Pacific Rim nations. (antiwar.com)
  • The mislabeled "Demilitarized Zone" ( dmz ) hosts over one million North Korean soldiers, poised, ready to invade the southern peninsula. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Though the South Koreans have less than half as many soldiers as their northern brothers, they have a special ally. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The last period of open war on the Korean peninsula cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5 million lives, including nearly a million soldiers on both sides (36,516 of them American) and 2.5 million civilians in the North and South. (antiwar.com)
  • China has been paying close attention to the development of the situation on the Korean Peninsula. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • If progress is to be made in relation to dampening the drums of war, then it is essential for America, China, and the Russian Federation to work together in this part of Northeast Asia. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • When North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on 26 March secretly rolled into Beijing on a private armoured train for unofficial meetings with President Xi Jinping, China moved decisively centre stage in the Korean peninsula drama. (crisisgroup.org)
  • China continues to be a key issue for Vietnamese American voters, particularly those concerned with nation-state or trade issues," explained Long Bui, an international studies professor at UC Irvine who studies Asian American populations. (wuky.org)
  • Polls, for instance, jumble those from Taiwan under the umbrella "Chinese American" category - which, given Beijing's threats against Taipei and growing numbers of Taiwanese who reject that identity, fail to capture that group's assessment of the rise of China - one that is markedly different from immigrants directly from the People's Republic of China. (wuky.org)
  • By October the combined allied forces had pushed the North almost to the North Korean border with China. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • Imagine increasing numbers of North Koreans attempting to flee into China, perhaps led by border guards. (antiwar.com)
  • Displaying all content tagged with the topic Korean Peninsula. (keia.org)
  • South Korean officials issued a statement saying they were "trying to figure out what President Trump's intention is and the exact meaning of it. (msnbc.com)
  • The [Korean] peninsula has traditionally been Japan's first area of security concern. (thetrumpet.com)
  • It has become one of the most closely watched congressional races this election cycle, and will likely trigger a rethink for politicos on how they've traditionally surveyed Asian Americans. (wuky.org)
  • The result could be another famine, akin to that of the late 1990s which killed at least a half million and by some estimates as many as three million North Koreans. (antiwar.com)
  • On the same day that President Moon and Chairman Kim held their second summit in Panmunjom, our delegation, accompanied by over 1,200 Korean women, walked over five kilometers in the sweltering heat to cross the Unification Bridge on foot. (fpif.org)
  • At their first summit in more than a decade, the two sides announced they would seek an agreement to establish "permanent" and "solid" peace on the peninsula. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Beside the expected American-North Korean summit, another important summit is expected in Moscow before year's end. (ahram.org.eg)
  • An American of Korean descent, Namkung was born in Shanghai, raised in Tokyo, and educated in American schools abroad. (syr.edu)
  • Other key AAPI groups in the area include people of Korean, Chinese and Indian descent - together accounting for a third of all registered voters. (wuky.org)
  • Ive literally been mostly watching Korean films (FAR more than American content) the past several years. (themoviedb.org)
  • Lt. Col. Joe Scrocca, spokesman for 2ID, said the initial testing of the MRAPs will come during the upcoming Ulchi Freedom Guardian annual joint training exercise with the South Korean military. (stripes.com)
  • The North Koreans invest one quarter of their gross national product on the military. (thetrumpet.com)
  • During this period, four Hispanic American U.S. Marines received the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor, with three of them posthumously receiving the award. (navy.mil)
  • Most American Jews not only opposed fighting the Communist regime of North Vietnam, they even opposed merely supplying the South Vietnamese government with military hardware so that it could defend itself when, in violation of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam. (jewishjournal.com)
  • Yes, a continued American military presence might very well have been necessary for generations. (jewishjournal.com)
  • Kim Jong-il staged notable military provocations in 2010 but showed a deft touch in halting before he triggered a South Korean military response. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Well, sure, if what we're talking about is guaranteeing that the welfare checks continue to reliably arrive in the American military industrial complex's mailboxes. (antiwar.com)
  • So, after the war, succeeding American administrations have almost been forced to maintain high levels of military spending. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • Dr. Jin Park commentates on the developments in the Korean Peninsula and its impact on the region. (asiafoundation.org)
  • Abandoning South Vietnam and Iraq - policies immensely popular among American Jews - vastly increased human suffering. (jewishjournal.com)
  • The legacy of the Korean War was an immensely costly arms race that strained domestic government spending, including farm programs. (livinghistoryfarm.org)
  • The front pages of Chinese evening newspapers, showing images of China's President Xi Jinping with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are displayed at a newspaper stand in Beijing on March 28, 2018. (crisisgroup.org)
  • Train to Busan is one of my favorite South Korean films ever, and I firmly defend that it's one of the best zombie apocalypse movies of all-time, maybe even the best. (themoviedb.org)
  • The Koreans had a history of independence and unity under a ruling dynasty from 668 CE until the Japanese conquest of 1910. (jcpa.org)
  • In 1979, Secretary of the Navy Edward Hidalgo became the first Hispanic American to serve in this appointed post. (navy.mil)
  • It is also refreshingly wide-ranging, at least in its first chapter (entitled "The Changing Security Environment"), in seeking to place American national strategy within the broader context of the global economic, technological, and political changes that have occurred over the past decade or so. (nybooks.com)
  • At the same time, the North Korean economy will contract at a higher rate and this will further weaken central forces. (moderntokyotimes.com)
  • Others, such as North Korean human rights and the status of U.S. forces, seem intractable but may present potential for progress. (usip.org)
  • The usual arguments are that America cannot be the world's policeman, that we cannot stay in a country forever, and/or that it was all George W. Bush's fault for invading Iraq in the first place. (jewishjournal.com)
  • The Vietnamese American community really pays attention to U.S. foreign policy towards Chinese Communist expansion in the Asia-Pacific region," said Tri Ta, Republican mayor of Westminster, and supporter of the Steel campaign. (wmra.org)
  • Of course none of these answer the moral question: How could people who think of themselves as caring, compassionate, progressive, moral and preoccupied with tikkun olam not give a damn about what happens to a whole country the day after Americans leave? (jewishjournal.com)
  • So far, the Korean War hasn't delivered any benefit of note to the American people, especially in the areas of "stability" or "national security. (antiwar.com)
  • We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal, and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare, and the American people know that we need to make a change. (bcgsc.ca)
  • Today, the DPAA teams work with the Vietnamese government as they search for roughly 1,600 Americans missing from that war. (militaryconnection.com)
  • What did the American taxpayer get in return for three years of fighting, tens of thousands of Americans dead, and nearly $700 billion (in 2008 dollars)? (antiwar.com)
  • However, the North Korean system begins in a far weaker position today - having endured years of sanctions, suffered from more than two years of self-isolation, and retreated from domestic economic reforms. (antiwar.com)
  • Everywhere I went, I witnessed the afterglow of the inspiring candlelight movement that restored democracy to the country last year, and I sensed the deep conviction with which Koreans support the current peace process initiated by President Moon Jae-in. (fpif.org)