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Tacoma family keeps up search for downed Korean War pilot

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Adam Ashton The News Tribune TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – As a boy, Albert Paffenroth Jr. walked to the edge of a fence around the runway at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan to watch his dad and other pilots lift into the sky in their B-26 bombers. Almost 70 years later, Paffenroth is trying […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2016, Albert Paffenroth Jr, Albert Paffenroth Sr, Central Pacific, DNA, Gig Harbor, Johnson Air Force Base, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, North Korean, Philippines, TACOMA, United States, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8, japan, technology

Kim Young-sam, former president of South Korea, dies

November 28, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service By Hyung-jin Kim SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former President Kim Young-sam, who formally ended decades of military rule in South Korea and accepted a massive international bailout during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, died Nov. 22. He was 87. The chief of Seoul National University Hospital, Oh Byung-Hee, announced Kim’s death […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2015, Chun Doo-hwan, Former President Kim Young-sam, Geoge Island, International Monetary Fund, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Korean War, Koreas South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, North Korean, President Park Chung-hee, Roh Tae-woo, Seoul National University Hospital, South Koreans, Syngman Rhee, United States, Vol 34 No 49 | November 28 - December 4

An interview with Sidney Rittenberg — Part 3: “Thunder but no rain” over South China Sea, Confucian communists, and a wonderful life

November 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Wen Liu Special to Northwest Asian Weekly No one can better shed light on U.S. and China relations for us than Sidney Rittenberg, who knows China and the Communist Party inside out. Having lived in China for 35 years through wars and revolutions, now in his very wise 90s, he has to be the […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News, World News Tagged With: 2015, Anna Louise Strong, Ashton Carter, Chinese Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping, Dorothy Parker, Global Times, Great Leap Forward, Herbert Hoover, John Foster Dulles, Korea, Korean War, Li Peng, Li Yuanchao, Liu Looking, Liu Xi Jinping, Minister Peng, Peng Dehuai, President Coolidge, President Obama, Rittenberg Absolutely, Rittenberg It, Sidney Rittenberg Part, Silent Cal, Vol 34 No 48 | November 21 - November 27

Tearful cross-border reunion may be last for elderly Koreans

October 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kim Tong-Hyung Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A 98-year-old South Korean man cried loudly and repeatedly buried his face in a handkerchief as his elderly North Korean son, who last saw his father as a 5-year-old, watched calmly from across the table. Meanwhile, an 88-year-old South Korean woman sobbed uncontrollably as she […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Associated Press, Diamond Mountain, Ju Jae Un, Kim Wol-soon, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, Lee Bok-soon, Lee Seok-ju, North Korean Jong Kun Mok, Ri Dong Wuk, SEOUL, South Koreans, Vol 34 No 45 | October 31 - November 6, reunion

Rival Koreas restart talks, pull back from brink — for now

August 30, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge and Foster Klug Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — For the moment, North and South Korea have pulled back from the brink and on Sunday resumed a second round of talks that temporarily pushed aside vows of imminent war on the peninsula. The first round of marathon talks on Aug. 22 […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Defense Ministry, Foster Klug, Hwang Pyong So, Kim Jong-un, Kim Kwan-jin, Kim Yang Gon, Korean People, Korean War, Min Kyung-wook, North Korean, PYONGYANG, Rival Koreas, South Korean, Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo, Vol 34 No 36 | August 29 - September 4, Workers Party

Retracing war past, ex-N. Korean POWs return to South Korea

August 16, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press YANGPYEONG, South Korea (AP) — Back in the country where they were detained as prisoners of war in the 1950s, two former North Korean soldiers now find little apparent objection or hostility, at least superficially — they were even welcomed by veterans who had fought for the South. But it’s […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Brazil, Cho Kyeong-duk, Cold War, Korean War, Lee Kyu-hwan, Maria Valerio Kang, Mato Grosso, North Korean People, North Koreans, POW, Return Home, San Francisco, South Koreans, United States, Vol 34 No 34 | August 15 - August 21, YANGPYEONG

North Korean ex-POWs hope to return home before they die

June 7, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After the Korean War ended in 1953, Kim Myeong Bok and 75 other North Korean prisoners of war detained in South Korea opted to live abroad rather than risk hostile welcomes in either half of their homeland. Now he wants to come home, though he […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Argentina, Associated Press, Brazil, Cho Kyeong-duk, India, Korean People, Korean War, MBC, Mato Grosso, North Korean, POW, Return Home, San Francisco, Seoul National University, South Korean, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

CACA Seattle in the other Washington

June 1, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Bettie Luke, Ali Lee and Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman represented the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA) Seattle in the CACA national legislative and education team to Washington DC last week.  They participated in the first summit for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders where President Obama’s cabinet members and API leaders discussed issues regarding AAPIs. Three key issues […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, API, Albert Shen, Ali Lee, Asian Americans, Bettie Luke, CACA, Korean War, Pacific Islanders, President Obama, Vol 34 No 23 | May 30 - June 5, Washington DC

UW Korea Studies Program named for Hon. Paull Shin

June 26, 2014 By Vivian Nguyen

By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly For Paull Shin, fighting to survive has long been part of his DNA.<!–more–> The University of Washington’s (UW) College of Arts and Sciences, in conjunction with the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, recently celebrated the former Washington State senator for his unwavering commitment to the school’s Korea […]

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2014, Brigham Young University, GED, Human Rights, International Studies, Jackson School, Korea Studies Program, Korean American, Korean Studies Program, Korean War, Paull Shin, Ray Paull, Salt Lake City, Seattle Central, UW, Vol 33 No 27 | June 28 - July 4, Young Sook Lim, culture, language

Kim pleads guilty of leaking to Fox News

March 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Former senior adviser Stephen Kim agreed to a 13-month sentence in the case stemming from a report on North Korea’s military that he leaked to Fox News. By Frederic J. Frommera By Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. State Department expert on North Korea pleaded guilty Feb. 7 to passing classified information to a journalist. […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, FBI, Fox News, James Rosen, Justice Department, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, North Korea, President Barack Obama, Security Council, State Department, Stephen Kim, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7, poverty

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