He deployed to Korea for two tours during the Korean Conflict when I was very young.
When the Korean conflict began, suddenly Taiwan became an area we felt we had to defend.
In 1953, Operation "Big Switch" was under way as prisoners taken during the Korean conflict were exchanged at Panmunjom.
In 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Relations between the two Koreas are tense - they remain technically at war following the 1950-53 Korean conflict, which ended in an armistice.
The two Koreas remain technically at war, because an armistice was signed at the end of the 1950-53 Korean conflict, rather than a peace deal.
In my day you went off to war: World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam to get your tuition money from the government.
Canada has lost 85 soldiers and one diplomat in Afghanistan, the highest wartime death toll for the Canadians since the Korean conflict nearly 55 years ago.
But, after the initial phases of the Korean conflict went very badly for the Americans and South Koreans, MacArthur launched the Inchon landings, one of the most astounding invasions in history.
The US market fell this week amid concerns that the Korean peninsula conflict will escalate.
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But US and South Korean officials have sought to play down fears of a conflict on the Korean peninsula, saying there are no indications Pyongyang is preparing for a large-scale attack.
But they have also played down fears of an all-out conflict on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. was pulled into a very hot conflict by the Korean War, which also is over.
At the time, the dominant conflict scenario in this region was a renewed conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
He warned there was a risk of a conflict on the Korean peninsula which would make the Chernobyl nuclear disaster "seem like a child's fairy tale".
When North Korea said on March 5 it intended to nullify the armistice agreement that brought conflict in the Korean War to an end in 1953 and threatened to attack Seoul, South Korea's military made a rare and forceful response.
If the US and China are unable to come to terms with the conflict in the Korean Peninsula, it is unlikely they will come to terms with stabilizing their currencies continuing on a path of systematically devaluing currencies and creating a future threat of inflation while undermining a worldwide economic recovery.
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Here's a look at the precarious balance of power that has kept the Korean Peninsula so close to conflict since the three-year war ended in 1953, and some of the strategic calculus behind why, despite the shrill rhetoric and seemingly reckless saber-rattling, leaders on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone have carefully avoided going back over the brink.
Other likely agenda items include the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, conflict in Syria, climate change and expanding bilateral military ties.
In short, we may be at the cusp of a nuclear conflict starting on the Korean Peninsula but not limited to it.
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One hopes the world will see more of the commerce-driven model of Malaysia, and less of the kind of potentially dreadful military conflict now brewing along the Korean frontier.
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The conflict ends with defeat of North Korean forces and decapitation of the North Korean leadership through massive airstrikes, but the damage to South Korea and Japan, which is within missile range, is appalling.
The U.S. approach is supported by South Korean leaders and public, who would suffer the most in any conflict.
They suggest that other military moves by Pyongyang involving artillery attacks or shelling of nearby South Korean islands could actually present a more serious threat in triggering a conflict.
Kim, the South Korean defense minister, said that if North Korea were preparing for a full-scale conflict, there would be signs such as the mobilization of a number of units, including supply and rear troops, but South Korean military officials have found no such preparations.
On Tuesday, the more than 60-year-old conflict between the two Koreas heated up again Tuesday when North Korea shelled a South Korean island and the South returned fire.
The drills involve 10, 000 Korean forces and more than 3, 000 U.S. personnel responding to computer-driven conflict scenarios.
Cai Jian, deputy director of the Centre for Korean Studies at Shanghai's Fudan University, disagrees and tells Global Times that a large-scale military conflict is unlikely to break out because North Korea's threats are largely just psychological warfare against the US and South Korea.
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