Today in military history: Armistice ends the Korean War
On July 27, 1953, the Korean War ended in armistice after three years of fighting. The war began in June of 1950 when communist North Korea crossed the 28th parallel…
The time a fishing boat helped capture a North Korean submarine
Since the Korean Armistice Agreement of 1953, a tenuous ceasefire has existed between South Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Although gunfire has been exchanged across the demilitarized…
This is the only country in South America to send troops to the Korean War
While the Korean War Battles of Old Baldy, Triangle Hill, and Geumseong may not be the first battles that come to mind when we think of the Korean Conflict, for Colombia, they were certainly important. Like their Brazilian neighbors in World War II,…
This failed assassin was North Korean special forces’ ‘Lone Survivor’
The year was 1968, one of the most tumultuous years in American military history. The North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive and North Korea captured the American spy ship Pueblo outside its territorial waters. Riding high on his “victory” ov…
Why the North Vietnamese feared South Korean Marines
There’s no army on earth more anti-Communist than that of South Korea. When your closest neighbor and mortal enemy is North Korea, there’s just no other way. South Korea, also…
That time North Korean commandos tried to assassinate the South Korean president at home
North Korea might be a little provocative these days but the 1960’s DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the North’s official name), was the annoying middle child of international Communism.
The 60’s were an important decad…
There is now a deal to finally end the Korean War after 70 years
On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces poured across its border with South Korea, sparking the Korean War, which was fought for the next three years and has technically been…
These are the subtle differences between North and South Korea
At the end of World War II, when it became clear that Allied powers were going to become victorious, there was one main question left between the United States and…
These insane robot machine guns guard the Korean DMZ
The Korean Demilitarized Zone is probably the most watched, most ironically named 250 kilometers found anywhere in the world. Despite the unprecedented brutality of the Korean War and the sporadic violence between the two, people still routinely try…
South Korean student-soldiers fought off a North Korean army for 11 hours
After launching a mass invasion of South Korea in June of 1950, North Korean troops made steady progress, pushing South Korean and American forces down the Korean Peninsula in an…