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Washington DC (UPI) Feb 15, 2024 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a new-type surface-to-sea missile and ordered a stronger defense posture near a contentious maritime border in the Yellow Sea, state-run media reported Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a "new-type surface-to-sea missile" and ordered a stronger military posture near a contentious maritime border in the Yellow Sea, state-run media reported Thursday.

Seventy years after the end of the Korean War, there are still more than 7,000 U.S. servicemen who remain missing in action from that conflict. The remains of some 5,200 of these men are believed to be in North Korea. Unfortunately, poor diplomatic relations between the United States and North Korea have prevented the recovery of these remains. There is, therefore, a need for an alternative to the usual paradigm for conceiving, planning and implementing the recovery of U.S. war dead from North Korea. Usual practices might not carry the task, and ignoring the responsibility to bring our missing...

Residents of a South Korean island attacked by North Korea in 2010 fear it could become a flashpoint again. They hid in air raid shelters in early January after North Korea conducted artillery drills.