March 17, 2021 11:49
A memorial wall engraved with the names of about 43,000 soldiers who died in the 1950-53 Korean War will be set up in a dedicated park in Washington.
Construction at the Korean War Veterans Memorial Park will start in mid-March, the U.S. National Park Service said in a press release on Monday. The Wall of Remembrance is a new, permanent addition to the memorial which will include the names of 36,574 American servicemen and more than 7,200 members of the Korean Augmentation to the United States Army who gave their lives defending the people of South Korea, it said.
The park was dedicated in the National Mall, a landscaped park in Washington, on July 27, 1995 in the presence of then presidents Kim Young-sam and Bill Clinton.
Harvard Law School professor of Japanese Legal Studies J. Mark Ramseyer has faced an outpouring of public criticism from government officials worldwide against his upcoming paper, which claims that sex slaves, known as âcomfort women,â under the Imperial Japanese military were voluntary employed.
Ramseyerâs paper stoked international controversy by disputing the historical consensus that âcomfort womenâ â a euphemism commonly used to refer to women and girls used as sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese military before and during World War II â were compelled into sex work against their will.
Unlike many scholastic disputes, which do not stretch far outside academia, Ramseyerâs article has drawn strong responses from high-ranking government officials of several countries, including the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, and even North Korea.
South Korea and US Reach Agreement on Defense Cost Sharing
Seoul and Washington finally agreed on how to split the bill for the U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, but have not revealed details.
March 08, 2021
Republic of Korea Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Jeong Kyeong-doo and Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Command and United Nations Command, and Gen. Kim Byeong-joo, CFC deputy commander, render the appropriate honors during a ceremony at United States Army Garrison Yongsan, Sept. 26, 2017.
Credit: U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Eliverto Larios
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After a three-day negotiation in Washington, South Korea and the United States have finally concluded their Special Measures Agreement (SMA) talks, according to a statement by South Korea’s Foreign Ministry on March 8. The SMA negotiations – which cover South Korea’s contribution to the cost of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) – had been deadl
Seoul s leniency on Pyongyang worries some in international community
Posted : 2021-03-07 10:48
By Kang Seung-woo
Concern is rising over the growing discord between South Korea and some in the international community over sanctions on North Korea, following Unification Minister Lee In-young s interview with an overseas media outlet, in which he questioned whether sanctions by the United States and the United Nations (U.N.) on the North were effective.
In the recent interview with the Financial Times, Lee said it was time to reassess the efficacy of the sanctions, adding that the punitive actions have resulted in unintended negative effects on the lives of ordinary North Koreans. His remarks were in line with the Moon Jae-in administration s stance of easing or lifting the sanctions on North Korea in order to engage Pyongyang as part of the President s peace initiative.