NKorea, SKorea exchange fire near disputed border – A.P.

ShareThe Associated Press is reporting this morning that today the North and South Korean Navies exchanged gunfire in waters marking the western boundaries of their disputed territories. The piece is entitled NKorea, SKorea exchange fire near disputed border .
Officially, the Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace agreement so techinically we are still [...]

KOREAN WAR VET REMINDS US

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A READER TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE IN KOREA 1950
By Bobby "Y" for Veterans Today
Duffster: You invited me to write about my experiences in the Korean War which I am not going to do to any extent. War is hell in all wars. I am going to write some facts about [...]

60 Years, A Tractor and a Korean War Veteran from Maine

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Maine Misses A Veteran
by Ken Buckley, Bangor Maine
I will forever be astounded at seeing this tractor where Edgar left it almost 60 years ago.  For the few remaining islanders who knew Edgar, there are hundreds more from the mainland who have come to know [...]

ABC ACTION NEWS FALSIFIES NEWS STORY EXPLOITING & SLIGHTING DISABLED VETERAN…

ShareIn a recent news story about Korean War Veteran Jim Taylor being awarded 100% VA Disability and a retroactive check for $264,000, Tampa based WFTS ABC Action News and their Consumer Reporter Jackie Callaway falsified from what source they received the news story and thereby plagiarizing, exploiting, and slighting Terry Richards, a 60-year old Vietnam [...]

President Obama Signs Korean War Veterans Recognition Act

ShareWASHINGTON – Yesterday, on the 56th anniversary of National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, President Barack Obama signed H.R. 2632, the Korean War Veterans Recognition Act.  The bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), adds National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day to the list of days on which the display of the flag of the [...]

NATIONAL KOREAN WAR VETERANS ARMISTICE DAY, 2009

ShareBY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATION
Fifty-six years after the signing of the Military Armistice Agreement at Panmunjom, Americans remain grateful for the courage and sacrifice of our Korean War veterans. More than 600,000 United States and allied combatants lost their lives in Korea during the 3 years of bitter warfare that [...]

Veterans remember the ‘forgotten war’

ShareBy MICHAEL BURY Tribune Chronicle correspondent AUSTINTOWN – Area veterans gathered at the Korean War Memorial in Austintown to remember those who died in the "forgotten war."
Fifty members of the Korean War Veterans Association Chapter 137 laid 120 roses to honor the 120 men from Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties who died during the war [...]

REMEMBERING THE KOREAN WAR — AND THE AMERICAN VETERANS WHO SERVED

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Lest we forget the American veterans who served, over 35,000 giving their lives: The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the communist Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, under the communist dictator Kim Il Sung, without warning, invaded the capitalist Republic of  South Korea by sending waves of troops across [...]

Korean War veterans honored in Vegas

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For the third time in our city, Korean War Veterans from across the country were honored in Las Vegas Sunday night. And News 3’s Tiffany DeLeon reports that while some may call it the "forgotten war", these veterans are determined never to forget. While more than 900 people from all over the country [...]

US 'fully prepared' for any NKorea launch: Obama

ShareThe United States is "fully prepared for any contingencies" regarding a potential missile launch toward US territory by North Korea, President Barack Obama said in an interview to be aired Monday.
"This administration — and our military — is fully prepared for any contingencies," Obama told CBS when asked about the possibility that North Korea could [...]

Korean War-era soldier finally buried in Arlington Cemetery

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By Les Blumenthal | McClatchy Newspapers
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY — Under blue skies and with military honors, Cpl. Robert Schoening was buried at Arlington National Cemetery nearly 60 years after his front-line unit was overrun by Chinese troops in Korea and he was declared missing in action and presumed [...]

North Korea Issues Heated Warning to South

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North Korea announced Wednesday that it is no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War, the latest and most profound diplomatic aftershock from the country’s latest nuclear test two days earlier.
North Korea also warned that it would respond "with a powerful military strike" should its ships be stopped by [...]

Fischer, Korean War ace fighter pilot, dies at 83

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LAS VEGAS – Col. Harold E. Fischer, an ace fighter pilot whose high-profile captivity became a symbol of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China at the end of the Korean War, has died. He was 83.
Fischer died April 30 after suffering complications from back surgery, his companion Tsai Lan Gerth said.
As a captain in [...]

California National Guard soldier killed in 1952 in Korea to be honored

ShareHe was the first soldier from the California Army National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division – "Los Angeles’ Own" – to be killed after the division deployed to the Korean War.
And today the memory and sacrifice of Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Kaiser will be honored  at a special ceremony in Inglewood, where Kaiser graduated from high school.
He was [...]

Korean-American charged in rocket technology plot

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MIAMI — A Korean-American man who served prison time for trying to broker the sale of sarin nerve gas bombs to Iran has been indicted on charges of attempting to export advanced rocket technology to South Korea.
The federal indictment filed Wednesday in Miami charges 68-year-old Juwhan Yun (Joo-’WAHN Yun) of Short Hills, [...]

NKorea to quit nuclear talks

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North Korea announced on Tuesday it would quit six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart its atomic weapons programme in protest at the UN’s condemnation of its rocket launch.
The communist nation said Security Council discussion of the launch, which the North insists sent a satellite into orbit, was "an unbearable insult" to its people.
Analysts described the [...]

World Reacts To North Korea Launch

ShareNorth Korea has sent up a rocket it says is carrying a satellite, despite international appeals not to go ahead with the launch.  Its neighbours and Western powers have responded with strongly worded statements.
     
SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN LEE DONG-KWAN
The government cannot but express disappointment and regret over North Korea’s reckless act of firing [...]

North Korea reportedly fueling rocket

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has begun fueling a long-range rocket for an impending launch, a news report said today, as President Barack Obama warned that the liftoff would be a "provocative act" that would generate a U.N. Security Council response.
North Korea has said it will send a communications satellite into orbit on a [...]

Review: The Korean War: A forgotten conflict

ShareThe Korean War is one of the most sorely overlooked events in modern American history.
An eloquent remembrance of a father who served in the Korean War.
     
The Korean War is one of the most sorely overlooked events in modern American history.
In response, Michelle Myers Berg’s one-person memoir, "Blue Collar Diaries," which opened Saturday at St. Paul’s [...]

US 'will not stop' N Korea rocket

ShareUS Defence Secretary Robert Gates says North Korea is likely to launch a rocket soon, and Washington would not attempt to stop it.
"If we had an aberrant missile, one that looked like it was headed for Hawaii, we might consider it, but I don’t think we have any plans to do anything like that [...]

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