HOW did Korea end up being TWO Koreas? After World War II, amidst the celebrations, the USA, the United Nations, and the Soviet Union didn't know what to do with Korea, who they'd just freed from ...

Continues: The war for Korea, 1945-1950. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2005. In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning, the author, a military historian argued that the conflict ...

War broke out after North Korea invaded the South. Three years later, the war ended in a truce — not a peace treaty — leaving the two Koreas technically still a ...

As a united Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall on Monday, about one million soldiers face off across the Cold War’s last great divide — the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) ...

At dawn on June 25, 1950 — 75 years ago today — soldiers of the communist Korean People’s Army crossed the 38th parallel in a coordinated strike south into the non-communist Republic of Korea. Behind ...

As NATO leaders gather in Ankara, Türkiye's role in the alliance is best understood through its decades-long military commitment—from the battlefields of Korean Peninsula to the frontlines of today's ...

SEOUL—When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shocked his country by declaring martial law earlier this month, he used language plucked straight from the Cold War. The conservative leader described ...

The U.S. military said it moved 100 wooden coffins to the inter-Korean border to prepare for North Korea's returning of the remains of American soldiers who have been missing since the 1950-53 Korean ...

Zhao, who married her late husband's cousin, has five children but never stops mourning the man she lost A restored portrait ...

SEOUL, South Korea — British expatriates commemorating the United Kingdom’s role in the Korean War have launched a video walking tour marking their country’s bloodiest battle since World War II. The ...