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From the transcript of the 12/29/19 edition of ABC News' "This Week:" Bold face is ours... "ROBERT O'BRIEN, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER (sic): Yes, we always monitor the situation. And Chairman un (sic) has said that…
North Korea calls threats by President Trump “the sound of a dog barking.” Here’s why. For decades Pyongyang has threatened, attacked, captured and killed Americans (and our South Korean allies) without paying any real…
President Trump promised to focus the US government on America’s “forgotten men.” None so deserve that title as the GIs imprisoned by China but never returned at the end of America’s “Forgotten War” in Korea, along with…
“The Families Have Waited Long Enough!” Kin of Cold War POW/MIAs Demand Action (Memorial Day Weekend, 2016) The families of US aviators lost during spy flights near the Soviet Union, China and North Korea have fought…
Secretary of State Clinton joked about a failed North Korean missile test after a senior aide facetiously suggested they send North Korea's dictator a signed picture from the movie "Failure to Launch." The State…
In early 2009, a pair of U.S. television journalists got picked up by North Korean police near the border with China. Never ones to let a potential hostage crisis go to waste, North Korean officials in June sentenced…
Books about Vietnam POW/MIAs Abandoned in Place: The Men we Left Behind and the Untold Story of Operation Pocket Change Lynn O’Shea, with forward by Col. Don Gordon (Ret.) Amazon 2014: Kindle and Paperback (July 2014)…
A Summary of the Issue’s Political Evolution The remains of many Americans who died on the battlefield or in communist prison camps are in North Korea; their recovery is a high priority, but this summary concerns those…
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