38th parallel

• Standoff at the 38th Parallel.

One Korea John Bolton North Korea is and will remain a threat to the United States and our friends and allies as long as it retains nuclear weapon...

• The National Interest
• Nbr. 2008, May 2008

• Posing at the 38th Parallel That Would Divide Koreas

Korean War veteran Duncan Steck sent us this photo related to his "I Know a Story" submission, at right. It isn't a photo of "The Lancaster That Was," but rather "The Lancastrian That Was. Mr. Steck was serving with the 3rd Division Artillery Anti- aircraft Battalion in Korea in the summer of 1952.

• Sunday News; Lancaster, Pa.
• March 21, 2011

• North Korea and Failed Diplomacy

In 1995 and 1996, as American politicians tried to deal with the North Korean nuclear program, some of the most senior officers in the PLA made it clear that neither the United States, nor its ally South Korea, should attempt to inject military forces over the 38th parallel, either to stabilize a collapse in North Korea or to attack suspected nuclear sites. Both authors are realists, and Funabashi's work provides an important explanation of how the kidnappings of Japanese citizens by the North Koreans affect domestic politics as Tokyo takes part in the Six-Party Talks as well as its own bilateral discussions with the DPRK.

• Parameters
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 1, April 2009

• Forgotten War Remembered

On Wednesday, America will mark the 58th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, the nations forgotten war so famously described by Gen. Omar Bradley as the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy. The war that began when troops of the North Korean Peoples Army swept across the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950, invading South Korea, ended in armistice on July 27, 1953. It lasted just 37 months, yet it claimed the lives of 54,246 Americans nearly as many as died in a decade of war in Vietnam.

• Bangor Daily News
• July 25, 2011

• U.S. Missile Defense Is Vital for Restraint of South Korea

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, has been observing the current situation involving North and South Korea which developed last week and has offered his comments. Ellison is one of the foremost experts in the field of missile defense in the world. His observations are the following: Long simmering tensions between the two countries erupted last week as North Korea used artillery to strike Yeonpyeong Island in South Korean territory, killing four and destroying parts of a civilian city. This unilateral military strike followed a torpedo attack linked to North Korea that sank a South Korean Naval ship, Cheonan, and killed forty-six sailors nine months ago....

... to deescalate the current tension on the 38th parallel that was created sixty years ago. "Missil...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 02, 2010

• Twilight of the Republic?

Near the end of World War II, GIs did liberate the surviving inmates of Nazi death camps. The narrative of American foreign relations from the earliest colonial encounters with Native Americans until, say, the end of the cold war reveals a record that is neither uniquely high-minded nor uniquely hypocritical and exploitive. To be sure, America's ascent did not occur without missteps: opéra bouffe incursions into Canada; William McKinley's ill-advised annexation of the Philippines; complicity in China's "century of humiliation"; disastrous interwar economic policies that paved the way for the Depression; Harry Truman's decision in 1950 to send U.S. forces north of Korea's 38th Parallel, to name only some.

• Commonweal
• August 13, 2009

• A Renaissance Man Among Us Othmar Jacobs: Designs for Life

Othmar Jacobs is a 77-year-old Renaissance man who is not afraid to climb a roof and get his clothes dirty. Designer and builder, artist, singer and community activist, Jacobs' wide interests are born of an insatiable curiosity about the world. Jacobs drew and designed homes and buildings as a young adult, and parlayed his talents into a successful career. A Memorial High School graduate, Jacobs went to Korea at age 19 and was stationed near the Chowan Reservoir at Sand Bag Castle between two valleys. Because of his drawing skills and artistic ability, Jacobs designed and built bunkers in this rugged area near the 38th Parallel.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• October 20, 2009

• Real Story of Air War Over Korea

David Sears has assembled a fascinating reprise of the naval air war over Korea, based in no small measure on extensive interviews of the men who were there and did the flying but also with extensive research into other sources. His extensive bibliography and notes reflect just that. Nor does he tell a boring, straightforward, chronological story. Instead, he devotes considerable discussion to the parallels and, indeed, depictions of real-life events in James Michener's "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" and the movie "The Fighting Lady," both based on the naval air war over Korea, as well as clear descriptions of life on the storm-tossed carriers of the 7th Fleet and the hazards involved in flying from those aircraft carriers into those hostile skies. When the North Koreans crossed the 38th para...

• The Washington Times
• May 04, 2010

• Slouching Toward a New Korea Strategy ; Bush Blew It, Obama Is Blowing It; Time for a Different Plan

North Korea's brazen, unprovoked torpedoing of a South Korean warship last month has refocused international attention - and criticism - on the Stalinist regime situated above the 38th Parallel. Beyond the public outrage now coming from Washington, however, it's painfully clear that the White House doesn't possess much by way of a coherent approach toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) or its "Dear Leader," Kim Jong-il. To be fair, this is not a new phenomenon. For much of the past two decades, the United States has suffered from an acute strategy deficit on the Korean Peninsula. During the Bush years, this dearth of ideas took the form of a haphazard strategy of carrots and sticks, as the U.S. government alternated between sanctions and engagement in an attempt to buy...

• The Washington Times
• June 02, 2010

• Cia Papers: Americans 'Caught by Surprise' in 1950

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - The CIA on Wednesday released a massive amount of documents dealing with the Korean War, some of which point to the young agency's failure in the late 1940s to understand crucial events on the Korean peninsula in the run-up to the conflict. One CIA analysis said "American military and civilian leaders were caught by surprise" when North Korean troops moved south across the 38th Parallel in June 1950.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• June 17, 2010