Like the heroes in comic books, Cpl. Fred McGee rescued others when the odds were stacked against him. On June 16, 1952, ...

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one ...

Ukrainian special forces encountered North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region using self-detonation tactics. Over a dozen bodies were found, with one survivor detonating a grenade. Reports ...

South Korean author Han Kang’s latest novel, “ We Do Not Part ,” begins with a woman named Kyungha describing a dream in ...

In 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to ...

North Korea’s deployment to Russia is its first major involvement in a war since the 1950-53 Korean War. It reportedly sent a much smaller contingent to the Vietnam War and to the civil conflict ...

North Korean troops deployed to Russia to fight alongside Vladimir Putin's forces in the war against Ukraine are taking their own lives to avoid capture, officials have said. Newsweek contacted ...

North Korea has deployed some 12,000 troops to aid Russia’s war effort, Ukraine has said, echoing assessments by American and South Korean intelligence agencies. Kyiv previously claimed to have ...

It has to do with South Korea’s post-war history and its hard-won path to becoming a functioning democracy. For much of its modern history, the Korean Peninsula has found itself in the middle of a ...

Ukraine has found “irrefutable evidence” of North Korea’s involvement in Russia’s war against his country, president Volodymyr Zelensky said this week as he announced the capture of two North Korean ...

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