Pentagon Chief Mattis Stresses Diplomacy in Korean Crisis

By Robert Burns / AP Oct 27, 2017 During a visit to South Korea, the U.S. secretary of defense said "we are doing everything we can" to avoid war with North Korea. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Trump, U.S. Warmongers Are Bigger Threat Than North Korea

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Oct 2, 2017 The president has no desire to seek diplomatic solutions in the standoff over nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles with Kim Jong Un. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

64 Years After the Korean War, the North Is Still Digging Up Bombs

By Eric Talmadge / Associated Press Jul 24, 2017 Decades after it ended, the conflict is still yielding thousands of leftover explosives—virtually all of them American. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Memory Loss in the Garden of Violence: How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars

By John Dower / TomDispatch May 6, 2017 The American way of recalling war has led to the populist nationalisms of today. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

American Artists Against War

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Jan 8, 2016 Artists of conscience have always responded angrily and passionately to war, genocide and torture. This book examines the work of American visual artists from 1935 to 2010 who believed that governments and humanity must be held to higher moral standards. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Midcentury U.S. Germ Warfare ‘Cover-Up’ Underscores Official Duplicitousness

Staff / Truthdig Sep 7, 2015 In the face of ongoing public ignorance of research that appears to show that the US military dropped fleas with bubonic plague on North Korea and China six decades ago, author and journalist David Swanson sees an urgent need to oppose U militarism. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Finally, a Teen Comedy About Asian Kids With an Asian Cast

Emily Wilson / Truthdig Jun 17, 2015 Director Benson Lee, a Korean-American, was inspired by the ’80s teen angst movies of the late John Hughes. But you won’t find any of the stereotypical Asian characters that tended to turn up in Hughes’ movies -- that is, when Asians appeared at all. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The House With a Sunken Courtyard

Rayyan Al-Shawaf / Truthdig Jan 3, 2014 The narrator of this Korean novel recalls the year that his family spent living alongside four other struggling families in the cramped quarters of a formerly grand old house in the wake of the Korean War. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

North and South Korean Navy Boats Clash at Sea

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2009 Tensions between North and South Korea escalated to the point of open combat off the Korean peninsula early Tuesday when navy patrol boats of the two nations swapped fire in disputed waters, according to The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )