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From Korea to Iran: A history of US conflicts — overt and covert — since World War II
June 26, 2025 2:20 pm
In the 80 years since World War II, the United States has seldom been without a military footprint on foreign soil.
A brief history of how the Korean War erupted in 1950, its impact on today’s geopolitics
June 30, 2024 5:57 pm
Despite the cessation of hostilities, the Korean War never formally ended. The armistice agreement of July 27, 1953, means North and South Korea are technically still at war. This unresolved state of affairs continues to influence the region's geopolitics.
On a hill in South Korea, a memorial to an Indian diplomat
July 27, 2023 10:16 pm
Colonel M K Unni Nayar was the only Indian killed during the Korean War whose remains could not be brought back from South Korea. To this day, every year, on June 25, marked as Korean War Day in South Korea, officials in Daegu pay tribute to Nayar in honour of his services during the war.
Korea celebrates the Indian support in the Korean war
July 10, 2021 6:08 pm
An exhibition commemorates the contribution of Indian medical troops during the Korean War
From US elections to Korean War anniversary, our best original international reporting for 2020
December 21, 2020 4:58 pm
While the Covid-19 pandemic dominated headlines and our collective thinking, there were also geopolitical developments, wars, conflict, and landmark commemorations that the newsroom had a responsibility to cover and to ensure that they weren’t missed.
70 years of Korean War: PM Modi remembers India's contribution in giving medical help
June 25, 2020 7:33 pm
As a non-aligned country, India did not militarily engage in the war but gave its moral support by sending a medical unit to Korea on humanitarian grounds.
Identifying remains of US troops returned from North Korea may be challenging: experts
June 23, 2018 8:19 am
The forensic experts will face the challenge of identifying the remains. Among the techniques they could use are detective work with old photos, comparing DNA from remains to that of missing soldiers' relatives and analysis of dental work.
In Photos: Reunions between Korean families divided by war
June 22, 2018 12:50 pm
Past reunions, some televised, have often unleashed floods of tears, with face-to-face encounters ending in painful separations. The last reunions were held in 2015. The South has also sought to resume video conferences and the delivery of letters among families divided by the border.
Memories of hunger cloud North Korean refugee's hopes for Trump-Kim summit
May 11, 2018 12:54 pm
An American citizen, Jo arrived in the United States in 2008 as a refugee, one of about 200 North Korean refugees who have been resettled in here.
64 years after Korean War, North is still digging up bombs
July 24, 2017 11:30 am
North Koreans claim 400,000 bombs were dropped on Pyongyang alone during the Korean war, roughly one bomb for every resident at the time, and that only two modern buildings in the capital were left standing, US dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on Korea during the war.
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