Koreas
Step by step, veterans advocate aims to ensure Korean War sacrifices aren’t forgotten
What began as one man’s plan to walk nearly 400 miles across South Korea grew into a monthlong remembrance that brought together veterans, students, military groups and local communities to honor those who fought in the Korean War.
Plans unveiled for new park in South Korea to honor U.S. sailor
The television cameras captured the 1956 ceremony in fuzzy black and white: Masses of people — Americans and South Koreans — in their military uniforms or their Sunday best, dedicating a small stone monument on the outskirts of Seoul to an American who had become something of a national hero in South Korea.
Korea has left its mark on U.S. servicemembers, past and present
The graying U.S. veterans and young uniformed U.S. soldiers who gathered here Sunday didn’t know each other, but they met having shared at least one experience: All have given part of their lives for Korea.
Kennedy vitality, charm glows along the truce line
His hair is greying slightly on the sides and his eyes seem weary — but that familiar Kennedy charm is still here.
Honor guard mascot turns out to be prodigy
Men of the Eighth Army Honor Guard woke one morning last March and found a bright-eyed Chinese lad peering down at them from an upper bunk of their billet.
Year in review: A look back at the top Pacific stories from 2002
1. Turmoil in South Korea
Gallup poll: South Koreans confident about US support, Japan uncertain
South Koreans are confident the American military would aid them in a conflict while the Japanese are far less certain, according to a Gallup poll released this week measuring confidence in U.S. intervention among Asian nations.