Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Korean War

The 'Mao suit': how a military-style uniform changed the face of China – and clothed Australian prisoners during the Korean War

In the collection of the Australian War Memorial there is a photograph of four men in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, taken in the winter of 1952-3. Australian airman Ron Guthrie is in the group. He had been in captivity since August 1951.

The Conversation

NATO slams 'dangerous' Russian blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports

NATO condemned Russia's "dangerous" moves to block Ukrainian grain exports in the Black Sea after urgent consultations with Kyiv on Wednesday following Moscow's withdrawal from a key grain deal last week. Earlier in the day, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in North Korea, with delegations from Moscow and Beijing…

France 24

Rival Koreas mark armistice anniversary in two different ways that highlight rising tensions

The truce that stopped the bloodshed in the Korean War turns 70 on Thursday and the two Koreas are marking the anniversary in starkly different ways, underscoring their deepening nuclear tensions

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Chinese and Russian officials to join North Korean commemorations of Korean War armistice

Both Russia and China are sending government delegations to North Korea this week for events marking the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War

The Independent UK

North Korea Holds Mass Rallies Calling For Revenge Against U.S.

North Koreans rally for 'war of revenge' against U.S. as Kim Jong-un marks 73 years of Korean War

Zenger

Travis King isn't the 1st U.S. soldier to enter North Korea. Here's a history

Travis King crossed the border into North Korea on Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. service member to do so since 1982. A handful of American soldiers defected in the years after the Korean War.

WEKU

The surreal Korean border village where a US soldier crossed into the North

Blue-roofed huts, a raised slab of concrete and some raked gravel are all that separate the rival Koreas at Panmunjom, a rare point of close contact along the most heavily armed border in the world

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

DPRK missile launch a message to U.S. ahead of armistice anniversary

SEOUL -- North Korea's launch of a long-range ballistic missile Wednesday appears to have been aimed at showing off technological advancements in its weapons arsenal. It is also thought to have been a provocation ahead of this month's 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Alan Alda boots, dog tags from ‘M*A*S*H’ going up for auction

Alda, 87, said he wore the boots and dog tags for the 11-season run of the show centering on a Korean War medical unit. Alda announced in 2018 that he had Parkinson’s disease.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sir Michael Caine makes rare public appearance alongside fellow Korean War veterans

Hollywood actor Michael Caine fought in the Royal Fusiliers in the 1950s, as well as being known for some of his acting roles on screen as soldiers fighting at war in the British Army

Daily Mirror

Thousands of North Koreans march in anti-US rallies as country marks Korean War anniversary

Tens of thousands of North Koreans marched in anti-U.S. rallies in the nation’s capital over the weekend, pledging “merciless” revenge against “U.S. imperialists,” as the country marked the 73rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War

The Independent UK

North Korea holds rallies denouncing ‘imperialist US’

Tens of thousands attend events in Pyongyang as country marks the anniversary of the start of the Korean War in 1950.

Al Jazeera

Lasting memorial to brave heroes of Korean War unveiled

Veterans from around Scotland travelled to the country's only Korean War Memorial in Bathgate

Daily Record

Dumfries Model Flying Club celebrate more than 100 years of aviation history

Scale models of full-sized military aircraft spanning both world wars and the Korean war were shown and flown, along with various civilian types

Daily Record

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

'He's home': Missing 73 years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to Georgia

An American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor after he went missing in battle during the Korean War is being buried on Memorial Day near his hometown in Georgia

The Guardian - US

Lost story by ‘poet of the tabloid murder’ James M Cain discovered in Library of Congress

Strand Magazine will publish Blackmail, a tale of a blind Korean war veteran, found by New York editor Andrew Gulli

The Independent UK

Medal of Honor recipient missing 73 years to be buried Memorial Day

A Memorial Day burial is planned for a U.S. soldier and Medal of Honor recipient whose remains were identified 73 years after he went missing during the Korean War

Bangkok Post

Korean opera to be staged in Bangkok

The Arts Council Korea, the Thai Korean War Veterans Association, and the Korean Cultural Center in Thailand will present the Bangkok premiere of The Wedding Day, a Korean opera, at Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, on June 7 and 8 at 6.30pm.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Medal of Honor recipient's remains ID'd 73 years after Korea

The remains of a U.S. Army corporal killed during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor have been identified, 73 years after he went missing

Evening Standard

Royal Marines sent to Korean peninsula for first time since 1950s amid China tensions

British Royal Marines have deployed to the Korean peninsula for the first time since the Korean War in the 1950s amid rising tensions with China.

Reuters

North Korea says it defused US Korean War bombs at Pyongyang apartment site

Workers at an apartment construction site in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, have discovered more than 110 bombs, shells, mines, grenades and other explosives that it says are U.S.-made weapons from the Korean War, state media said on Friday.

Daily Mirror

Man creates QR code for dad's grave so people can learn about atomic veteran's life

Michael Bourque, an inventor from Boston, Massachusetts, 3D-printed a QR code and attached it to his father, John Harold Bourque's headstone as a means to commemorate his life

Tribune News Service

'Cook the world': Sweetwater chef introduces students to multicultural cuisines

PITTSBURGH — Andrew Alvarez's immigrant parents had high standards. From an early age, he knew they hoped a career in medicine or engineering would follow his 2004 graduation from Quaker Valley High School.

Al Jazeera

North and South Korea violated armistice with drones: UN Command

Flying drones into each other’s airspace violated an armistice that ended fighting in the 1950-1953 Korean War, UN says.

The Independent UK

A Navy pilot shot down four Soviet jets in 30 minutes - and no one knew for 50 years

The pilot was told to keep the fight quiet to avoid setting off World War III

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Australian War Memorial

40 stories

NK News

20 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.