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FILE: A Naval Special Warfare operator conducts visit, board, search, and seizure training aboard a contracted vessel during maritime interdiction operations training. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Charles Propert/ Naval Special Warfare Group ONE)

SEAL Team 6 infiltrated North Korea in a mission gone wrong

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Sep 5, 2025

A flight of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft sit for a weapons check prior to takeoff at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, July 28, 2025. As part of the Super Squadron Test Phase II, pilots and F-16s will be temporarily relocated to Osan Air Base aiming to consolidate air power and increase combat capability on the Korean Peninsula. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Landon Gunsauls)

Air Force creates a second ‘super squadron’ in South Korea

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Aug 2, 2025

Soldiers assigned to 11th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, 2ID, 8th Army, pass in review during the battalion's change of command ceremony at Camp Humphreys, Korea, July 11, 2025. This part of the ceremony allows the new commander to inspect the battalion as Soldiers march past. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Mark Bowman)

South Korea tours will now be a year longer as Army cuts down on moves

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Jul 29, 2025

Two helicopters sit on the deck of an aircraft carrier, mountains in the background.

Navy carrier group visits South Korea after the North tests new missiles

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Mar 2, 2025

North Korean troops

North Korean troops thrown into Russia-Ukraine War will be ‘strangers in a strange land’

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Nov 1, 2024

Travis King North Korea Army

Army Pvt. Travis King sentenced for desertion after fleeing to North Korea

By Jeff Schogol, Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Sep 21, 2024

US soldier in South Korea pronounced dead after being found unresponsive

US soldier in South Korea pronounced dead after being found unresponsive

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on May 18, 2024

Tibor Rubin survived the Nazi's Mauthausen death camp as a boy and later joined the U.S. Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2005 for saving dozens of lives in combat and as a POW during the Korean War.

The Medal of Honor recipient who first survived the Holocaust: the story of Tibor Rubin

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Jan 27, 2024

travis king released

American soldier who crossed into North Korea back in US custody

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Sep 27, 2023

Korea Army DMZ JSA border crossing

Soldier who crossed into North Korea not yet considered a prisoner of war

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Aug 7, 2023

North Korea DMZ joint security area

Everything we know about the U.S. Army soldier in North Korea

By Max Hauptman

Posted on Jul 24, 2023

Korea Army DMZ JSA border crossing

U.S. Soldier ditched a flight home, ran across DMZ into North Korea, is now detained

By Max Hauptman

Posted on Jul 18, 2023

US and South Korea resume amphibious training after 5-year hiatus in message to North Korea

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 30, 2023

South Korean military exercises

The US and South Korea are holding their largest joint military exercise in 5 years

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

North Korea is developing a HIMARS for nuclear missiles

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Jan 4, 2023

North Korea says recent missile tests were practice to ‘mercilessly’ strike US air bases

North Korea says recent missile tests were practice to ‘mercilessly’ strike US air bases

By Haley Britzky

Posted on Nov 7, 2022