WASHINGTON, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. lawmakers, Korean Americans and others gathered in Washington on Wednesday to honor Korean War veterans and hope for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, as they commemorated the signing of the armistice that halted the conflict 71 years ago. Celebrating the National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court has ruled that the government was justified in denying national merit status to a man who was executed by North Korean forces during the Korean War after moving rice on orders from South Korean troops. According to legal sources on July 15, the 8th Administrative Division [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a mass anti-U.S. rally in Pyongyang to mark this week’s anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, state media reported Wednesday. More than 100,000 people attended the rally held at the May Day Stadium on Tuesday and the stadium was “full of the [...]
WASHINGTON, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior South Korean and U.S. officials on Tuesday underscored the strength of their countries’ steadfast alliance amid shared concerns over a deepening military alignment between North Korea and Russia, as they marked the 74th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. South Korean Ambassador to the U.S. Cho [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The remains of two United States Army soldiers who went missing as 17-year-olds during the Korean War have finally been identified, more than seven decades after their disappearance, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on May 15. The agency confirmed the identities of Private First Class Thomas A. Smith [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A monument marking Germany’s support for South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War was unveiled in Berlin earlier this week, the veterans ministry said Thursday, marking the first one of its kind in the European country. The unveiling ceremony for the pair of bronze sculptures, commemorating West Germany’s dispatch [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean War veterans from Commonwealth nations will revisit South Korea next week to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Gapyeong and other commemorative events, the veterans ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said it has invited six veterans and 15 family members from [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately 1,700 South Korean religious people were massacred by North Korean military and other hostile forces around the time of the 1950-53 Korean War, a state truth panel said Wednesday. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said it has identified a list of about 1,700 religious figures massacred across the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea began an annual project Monday to recover the remains of soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, the defense ministry said. The Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification said it will mobilize service members to excavate war remains in 36 former battle sites across the country until [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Family DNA samples of more than half of the South Korean troops killed and unaccounted for in the 1950-53 Korean War have been collected as part of efforts to recover their remains, the defense ministry said Thursday. As of Wednesday, the ministry’s war remains excavation agency collected DNA samples [...]