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North Korea Proposes High-Level Talks with US
North Korea's top governing body on Sunday proposed high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States in an appeal sent just days after calling off...
U.S. Wants ‘Credible Negotiations’ with North Korea
(WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration said Sunday it was receptive to North Korea's proposal for high-level talks, but wants "credible negotiations" that will...
North Korea Says It’s Open to Talks with South
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) North Korea says it is open to holding talks with South Korea on reopening their jointly run factory park in the first public response...
North Korean Defectors Sent Back by Laos, China
(SEOUL, South Korea) — Nine North Korean defectors have been forced to return to their country from China after being captured in Laos, a South Korean news...

Fighting Men, Then and Now: Part 1
First of three parts Battleland has a pair of interesting posts going up here shortly. The first was written in 1968 – at the height of the Vietnam war -- by...
Photo Essays

A House Divided: Photos From Korea’s 1948 Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion
A few years before the Korean Peninsula erupted in the civil war that saw the North and the South (and the U.S. and China) engaged in a conflict that would help...

LIFE With Horace the Housebroken Hare
Carl Mydans belongs on anyone’s short list of the 20th century’s finest photojournalists. The Boston native chronicled downtrodden migrant farmers in New England...


