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  1. Roundtable I: This Week in Politics

    Sun, 6 Jan 2013

    fox news, former labor secretary robert reich. I think this is the first time congress was in january 1st since the korean war , and you say the deal, and this is kind of a contrarian view, is a triumph. In a sense. I think people will look

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Latest Korean War News

  1. Analysis: Why Google NKorea Visit Irks US

    Sat, 5 Jan 2013

    tumultuous relationship with Washington, which retains nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War , which ended with a truce, not a peace treaty. Kim Jong Un's elevation to leadership after his father's death

  2. Today in History

    Fri, 4 Jan 2013

    dictator Josef Stalin appeared on the cover of Time as the magazine's 1942 "Man of the Year." In 1951, during the Korean War , North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul (sohl). In 1960, author and philosopher

  3. Google Chairman Heading to North Korea

    Thu, 3 Jan 2013

    Pyongyang do not have diplomatic relations. North Korea and the U.S. fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War before signing a truce in 1953. However, North Korea has indicated interest in repairing relations with Washington

  4. Pop Star Rain to Be Punished for Meeting Actress

    Thu, 3 Jan 2013

    sensitive issue. All able-bodied South Korean men must serve about two to three years, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War . Any allegations of special treatment can spark an immediate public outcry. "Gangnam Style" sensation PSY joined

  5. Pentagon Debuts Float in Rose Parade to Honor Vets

    Mon, 31 Dec 2012

    000 flower-covered float will be a replica of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon's director of the department's 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration Committee. The war began when North Korea

  6. Thousands to Pour Into Nashville for Bowl Game

    Mon, 31 Dec 2012

    Monday morning and afternoon. Woodland Street Bridge will be closed to traffic starting at 8:30 a.m. on Monday. The Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge will be open until the beginning of the 4th quarter when it will be restricted to westbound

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  1. Thousands to Pour Into Nashville for Bowl Game

    Mon, 31 Dec 2012

    Monday morning and afternoon. Woodland Street Bridge will be closed to traffic starting at 8:30 a.m. on Monday. The Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge will be open until the beginning of the 4th quarter when it will be restricted to westbound

  2. Pentagon Debuts Float in Rose Parade to Honor Vets

    Mon, 31 Dec 2012

    000 flower-covered float will be a replica of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon's director of the department's 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration Committee. The war began when North Korea

  3. North Korea's Caste System Faces Power of Wealth

    Sat, 29 Dec 2012

    truth: His father, it turned out, had been born in South Korea, served in its army and been taken prisoner during the Korean War . Like thousands of other southern POWs, he disappeared into the North's prison gulag, and then was forced into

  4. First Female President Elected in South Korea

    Wed, 19 Dec 2012

    an iron fist. But South Koreans credit him for laying the foundations of Korea's economic development following the Korean War . Park's mother, Yuk Young-Soo, died when Park was 22, murdered by a North Korean agent in a failed attempt to

  5. Israel-Gaza and 5 Other Dangerous Borders

    Fri, 16 Nov 2012

    dissuade any daring border crossers. The Demilitarized Zone (aka DMZ) has been in place since 1953, the end of the Korean War , which separated the Communist, Soviet-backed North from the U.S.-backed South. Since then, North Korea has

  6. Boys Return War Medals to Medal of Honor Winner's Family

    Mon, 12 Nov 2012

    means self-sacrifice, threw himself on a grenade that killed him, but saved those fighting in his company during the Korean War . His legacy was honored not only by his local Eastern Band Cherokee community, but also by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

  7. Despite Severe Weather, Sentinels Guard Tomb of the Unknowns Around the Clock

    Wed, 7 Nov 2012

    sarcophagus lies above the remains of an Unknown soldier from World War I. Unknown soldiers from World War II and the Korean War are buried in crypts in front of the sarcophagus. A third crypt used to contain the remains of an unknown soldier from

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  1. Roundtable I: This Week in Politics

    Sun, 6 Jan 2013

    fox news, former labor secretary robert reich. I think this is the first time congress was in january 1st since the korean war , and you say the deal, and this is kind of a contrarian view, is a triumph. In a sense. I think people will look

    Korean War found at 0:59

    since the korean war , and you
  2. South Korea's Historic Presidential Election

    Thu, 20 Dec 2012

    painted for crushing his political opponents but adored for carefully navigating an economy. Left in ruins after the Korean War . He was assassinated in 1979. Never married park has pledged to devote her life to the nation's welfare. South Korea

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    adored for carefully navigating -- an economy. Left in ruins after the Korean War . He was assassinated in 1979. Never married -- park has pledged to devote her life to the nation's welfare. South Korea has
  3. New York Brothers Return Veteran's War Medals

    Mon, 12 Nov 2012

    Medals found in antique shop traced to Charles George, who died in the Korean War .

  4. Voices of the Korean War Veterans

    Wed, 30 Jun 2010

    I got to sold. I never seen anything so devastating. This city was totally. Demolished. All I could see was buildings and but Down bullet holes and other buildings. And total devastation. And I thought for a moment when I saw that I said. My goodness. People are trouble. The funding from the guns

  5. Regis Philbin Remembers Time in the Service

    Mon, 5 Nov 2012

    equipment. I enjoyed it very very tied to people used to rally to ages older than me. Who through world war two. in the Korean War as well and witness. Submarines to. For the next war. So early. But I an awful lot from one of them was. Kenyon

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    older than me. Who -- through world war two. -- in the Korean War as well and witness. Submarines to. For the next war. So early. But I -- an awful lot from one of them
  6. Chinese Becomes New Language in the Classroom

    Mon, 15 Oct 2012

    show him on my phone is a cartoon from the "for kids" section of the confucius institute website which renames the korean war "the war to resist u.S. Aggression and aid korea." The institute recently pulled this video from its website

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    which renames the korean war
  7. Top 5 Best TV Shows

    Tue, 18 Sep 2012

    Some unexpected. Reporter: Families formed in bars, or on the battlefield. ♪ Reporter: Depicting the korean war -- "m.A.S.H." Was on the air 11 years. Eight years longer than the actual war. Star alan alda pushed for

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  1. VIDEO: Medals found in antique shop traced to Charles George, who died in the Korean War.
  2. PHOTO: Mitt Romney shakes hands with World War II and Korean War veterans returning on an Honor Flight from Washington in Swanton, Ohio, Sept. 26, 2012.
  3. VIDEO: Korean War veteran Dale Crawford made good on a ticket from 1953.
  4. VIDEO: Korean War vet's body is exhumed in order to be reunited with his dentures.
  1. PHOTO: South Korea's Korean War veterans shout slogans as they wave national flags during a rally denouncing North's leader Kim Jong Il and its policy in Seoul, Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
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