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North Korea stays silent on its apparent detention of a US soldier
Pvt. Travis King bolted into North Korea while on a tour of the Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday, a day after he was supposed to go back to a base in the U.S.
By Tara Copp and Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
South Korea’s Moon calls Trump-Kim summit end of hostility
South Korea’s president on Tuesday called a recent U.S.-North Korean summit at the Korean border an end of mutual hostility between the countries, despite skepticism by many experts that it’s was a just made-for-TV moment that lacked any substance.
DMZ, where Trump met Kim, is a vestige of Cold War
The Demilitarized Zone, where President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday, may be the most heavily fortified strip of land in the world and serves as an uneasy and occasionally bloody borderline between the two Koreas.
Kim-Trump border meeting: History or just a photo-op?
It sure looked historic: President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un strode toward each other Sunday from opposite sides of a strip of land that marks one of the world’s most dangerous places. They shook hands and then Trump stepped over the concrete slab that marks the borderline between the Koreas, becoming the first U.S. president to set foot in North Korean territory.
Trump, making history, steps into North Korea
What was intended to be an impromptu exchange of pleasantries turned into a 50-minute meeting, another historic first in the yearlong rapprochement between the two technically warring nations.
By Zeke Miller, The Associated Press and Jonathan Lemire, The Associated Press
A 'palpable air of calm’ along Korea’s DMZ but growing concerns about rising regional rivals
Military leaders update lawmakers on Indo-Pacific developments.
When Seabees weren’t building bases in Vietnam, they were fighting the enemy
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., includes 85 Seabees among its list of war dead—a tribute to their motto, “We build, we fight,” which is symbolized in their logo of a bee holding a wrench, hammer and machine gun.
By Tom Edwards, Vietnam Magazine