North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days after the end of the South Korean-U.S. military drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. The launches — North Korea’s first known missile testing activities in about a month — came as U.S. Secretary of State … Read more
The United States, South Korea, and Japan conducted perhaps their biggest-ever combined naval exercises in a show of strength against nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korea’s military said Wednesday. The three allies’ senior diplomats were to meet in Seoul to discuss the worsening standoff with Pyongyang. The training in waters off South Korea’s Jeju island, which … Read more
Advertisement On July 27, 1953, the Korean War was put on hold with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. It was not a permanent peace, merely a truce – but even that took two years of arduous negotiations involving not only North and South Korea but also their primary backers, China and the United … Read more