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Watching the public execution of his mother and older brother, Shin Dong-Hyuk thought the punishment was just. They had planned to escape the North Korean labor camp they were being held in until Shin overheard them and reported them to the prison guards.
Watching the public execution of his mother and older brother, Shin Dong-Hyuk thought the punishment was just. After all, Shin - then 14 years old - had reported his family's plot to escape to prison camp guards.
The Chosin Few, a group of veterans who fought in the brutal Battle of Chosin Reservoir in November and December 1950, holds an observance at the Oregon Korean War Memorial every year.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 27 (UPI) -- The North Korean government is turning its attention to a drought that is jeopardizing the rice crop, state media reports monitored in South Korea said.
Thirty North Korean officials in talks with South Korea have died (read: were executed) in car crashes, alleged by Amnesty International as staged hits. Amnesty International’s annual study alleges that in addition to the 30 dead from the government’s purges last year, another 200 were either executed or sent to concentration camps as power changed [...] 30 North Korean Officials Dead in “Staged ...
Every once in a while, usually on Memorial Day, I let my mind wander back to the Korean War and wonder what became of the men I knew who fought by my side in the year and a half of hell and hallelujah I spent on the front lines.
North Korea is suffering a prolonged and widespread drought, state media says, raising fears it will worsen already dire food shortages in the impoverished communist country.
Russell Fullerton arrived in Korea in 1953, just a little more than two months before the signing of a cease-fire. But don't tell him he got there when it was "winding down."
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 26 (UPI) -- A drought in North Korea's western coastal region may seriously affect the country's food production this year, North Korea's state-run media said Saturday.
COSHOCTON -- Almost 60 years after the end of the Korean War, Beverly Herd, 79, of Coshocton, still does not know the fate of her husband.
Taiwan's government says it will allow the export of hundreds of strategic high-tech goods to China if exporters can prove that North Korea or Iran will not be their final destinations.
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Phillip Miller remembers what it was like, patrolling the north central mountains of Korea's Demilitarized Zone. As part of the Demilitarized Zone police force, Miller said he could see the enemy but had a hard time telling the good guys from the bad. Related story: Grand Terrace monument to commemorate veterans
Ron Trebon of Edmonds visits his best friend from childhood, Steven R. Ihly, who died at 17 years old while serving in the Korean War. Ihly was an Army corporal, serving in the 378th combat engineers division.
Coach Pia Sundhage on Sunday named an 18-player roster (with four alternates) that will represent the United States at the Olympics.
PARIS, Tenn. -- Just in time for Memorial Day, a 60-year-old Purple Heart medal found in a farm ravine will be in the hands of the daughter of the fallen Korean War soldier who was awarded it.
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