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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...
Party in Pyongyang: Amid Tension, North Korea Celebrates Kim Il Sung’s Birthday
The 101st anniversary of the birth of the country's venerated founding father, the late dictator Kim Il Sung, is a pointer to the regime's current state of mind...
Medal of Honor: Chaplain Kapaum’s Heroism Feted Today
When President Obama posthumously awards Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Kapaun the Congressional Medal of Honor on Thursday April 11, the Army and the Chaplain Corps will...
North Korea in Holiday Mode Amid Missile Fears
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — North Koreans crowded a Pyongyang flower show, packed theaters and pledged loyalty to their leader Friday ahead of a key national...
Take Cover! It’s NoKo New Year
North Korea's cult of personality explains the latest provocations from Pyongyang
SecDef Hagel’s Not-So-Flawed Defense-Spending Premise
As Pentagon watchers count down the days until the April 10th release of President Obama’s proposal for the fiscal year (FY) 2014 defense budget, Battleland’s...
Talk Aside, N. Korean Capital Shows Calm, Not Panic
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — Scores of North Koreans of all ages planted trees as part of a forestation campaign — armed with shovels, not guns. In the evening,...
Trying to Plumb the North Korean Mindset
The titting-for-tatting between North Korea and the U.S. continued Wednesday as the Pentagon announced it is dispatching a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense...
Poker on the Korean Peninsula: Why Kim Jong Un Keeps Raising the Stakes
The North Korean leadership almost certainly does not want to go to war. So what's with all the saber-rattling?
Shouldn’t This Photo Be in Black-and-White?
This photograph shows North Korea soldiers firing a anti-ship rockets off the Korean coast several days ago. It's one of several the state-run Korean Central...
N. Korea Refuses to Allow S. Koreans into Factory Park
(SEOUL, South Korea) — Seoul says North Korea is refusing to allow South Korean workers to enter a jointly-run factory park just across the border in North...
N. Korea Vows to Cancel 1953 Korean War Cease-Fire
(SEOUL, South Korea & UNITED NATIONS) — North Korea's military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties...
War Drums Along the 38th Parallel
From the Pentagon to Panmunjom, U.S. defense officials conceded Monday they are perplexed, and pondering, what Pyongyang will do next. American and South Korea...
N. Korea’s Kim Visits Front-Line Troops Amid Tension
(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea's young leader urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang...
North Korea Says It Cancels 1953 Armistice
(SEOUL, South Korea) — A state-run newspaper in North Korea said Monday the communist country had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended...
S. Korea, U.S. Begin Drills as N. Korea Threatens War
(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice...
Morning Must Reads: March 11
In the news: powerful small states, North Korea, Hamid Karzai, outsourced battles, and the new three amigos in the Senate.
N. Korea Criticizes S. Korea President’s ‘Swish of Skirt’
(SEOUL, South Korea) — The body that controls North Korea's military is dismissing South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, with a sexist comment about the...
U.S. Worried by N. Korea Threats, Imposes New Sanctions
(WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration expressed heightened concern Monday over threats of war from nuclear-armed North Korea and issued new sanctions against...
U.N. Votes on New North Korea Sanctions Thursday
(UNITED NATIONS) — The U.N. Security Council, ignoring threats from North Korea, is set to impose a fourth round of even tougher sanctions against Pyongyang in a...
