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You are here: Home / Archives for Demilitarized Zone

Limón reimagines his Korean War history in detective series

March 4, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Novelist Martin Limón lives quietly near Seattle. In his imagination, however, he’s often traveling to South Korea, where his series of military thrillers starring Sergeant George Sueño are set. The newest series title, “The Ville Rat,” set in the 1970s, follows Sueño and his trusty sidekick, Sergeant Ernie Bascom, […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2016, Allied Forces, Andrew Hamlin, Brothers Grimm, Demilitarized Zone, Eighth Army, First Signal Brigade, Fort Lewis, Japan Korea Annexation Treaty, Kimpo Airfield, North Korean, Novelist Martin Lim, Olympia Beer, Seattle, Sergeant Ernie Bascom, Sergeant George Sue, South Korea, Third Republic, Vietnam, Vol 35 No 10 | March 5 - March 11

Women’s walk across Koreas’ DMZ denied; they cross by bus

May 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge Associated Press DORASAN STATION, South Korea (AP) — Female activists including Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace laureates were denied an attempt to walk across the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea on Sunday, but were allowed to cross by bus and complete what one of them called a landmark event. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, DMZ, Demilitarized Zone, Gloria Steinem, Korean Peninsula, Leymah Gbowee, Liberia, Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace, North Korean, Northern Ireland, Organizer Christine Ahn, South Korean, United Nations Command, Vol 34 No 23 | May 30 - June 5

Koreas hope to reopen joint factory

July 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korean delegates agreed on a desire to restart a stalled jointly run factory park after overnight talks that ended July 8, but they couldn’t immediately reach an accord to reopen the complex that had been a symbol of inter-Korean rapprochement.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, DMZ, Demilitarized Zone, KCNA, Korean Central News Agency, North Korean, SEOUL, South Korean, Suh Ho, Unification Ministry, Vol 32 No 29 | July 13 - July 19, Youkyung Lee

War-split North and South Korean families reunite after years apart

November 4, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of Korean family members separated for more than half a century by the Korean War embraced each other in tearful reunions

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Chinese Foreign Minster Yang Jiechi, Communist North Korea, Demilitarized Zone, Diamond Mountain, Kim Jong-il, Korean Central News Agency, Korean War, North Koreans, Ri Jong Ryol, SEOUL, South Koreans, State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vietnam, Vol 29 No 45 | November 6 - November 12, World Cup, attention

Ex-S. Korean President Kim Dae-jung dead at 85

August 20, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Dae-jung — who survived assassination attempts and a death sentence during his years as a dissident to become president of South Korea, and whose unflagging efforts to reconcile with communist North Korea earned him the Nobel Peace Prize — died Tuesday, Aug. 18, hospital officials said. He was 85.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Demilitarized Zone, Kim Jong-il, Korean War, Lee Sung-man, National Assembly, Nobel Peace Prize, North Korea, President Lee Myung-bak, President Park Chung-hee, President Roh Moo-hyun, SEOUL, Severance Hospital, South Korea Kim Dae-jung, South Korean, Sunshine Policy, Tokyo, vol 28 no 35 | August 22 - August 28

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