http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us THE appointment of an Australian to a senior position in the command of the US Army's 79,000-strong contingent in Asia-Pacific reflects Washington's strategic pivot to the region. Two-star Australian Army general Richard Burr was appointed to the senior ranks of... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14604960-australian-is-us-army-general-in-pacific travel-news Mon, 13 May 2013 23:40:48 -0700 South Korea North Korea has removed a hard-line general from the post of armed forces minister, filling the job with a little-known three-star general, according to official North Korean news reports on Monday. Since Kim Jong-un took over the leadership... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14598669-north-korea-names-armed-forces-minister travel-news Mon, 13 May 2013 03:29:47 -0700 South Korea and a US strike force led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz kicked off today a joint naval drill slammed by North Korea as a "wanton" provocation and rehearsal for war. The two-day exercise began with the... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14598241-us-carrier-joins-south-korea-drill-despite-north-anger travel-news Mon, 13 May 2013 01:53:27 -0700 The men stretched an emergency food supply meant to last just 48 hours over 2 1/2 weeks, taking tiny sips of milk and bites of tuna fish every other day. noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14586907-some-have-survived-many-days-after-calamities travel-news Fri, 10 May 2013 13:22:13 -0700 The unusual award of a top medal for bravery to a North Korean traffic policewoman has fueled speculation that she might have intervened in an incident that had threatened the life of leader Kim Jong Un. Some South Korean media... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14579405-bravery-award-hints-at-incident-involving-n-korea-leader travel-news Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:00 -0700 Conservative cabinet minister says if it wasn't for Canadian soldiers who risked their lives fighting communism, the world might never have had the last year of goofy unadulterated joy dancing to Gangnam Style. In an interview broadcast on Radio-Canada on... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14555671-canadian-war-veterans-made-gangnam-style-possible-says-veterans-affairs-minister-steven-blaney travel-news Mon, 06 May 2013 12:37:56 -0700 Topics A North Korean nuclear plant is seen before demolishing a cooling tower (R) in Yongbyon, in this photo taken June 27, 2008 and released by Kyodo. North Korea demanded on Tuesday that it be recognized as a nuclear weapons... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14465103-north-korea-demands-recognition-as-nuclear-arms-state travel-news Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:52:05 -0700 It was a 37-month war that turned the tide against communism and brought democracy to South Korea with a great cost to American troops: 54,246 died, 103,384 were wounded, 8,177 were missing in action and about 7,000 were prisoners of... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14453799-herald-news-letters-april-21-2013 travel-news Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:18:31 -0700 Published April 18, 2013 Associated Press North Korea on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of U.N. sanctions and the end of U.S.-South Korea military drills as conditions for resuming talks meant to defuse tension on the Korean Peninsula. The statement from... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14437599-north-korea-sets-preconditions-for-restarting-talks-video-gauging-danger-of-biological-weapons travel-news Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:57:53 -0700 Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," wrote Cyril Northcote Parkinson in 1955, and instantly created a whole new domain in the study of human affairs. "Parkinson's Law" was one of the most profound insights of the... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14434251-gwynne-dyer-filling-the-daily-scary-news-quota travel-news Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:39:30 -0700 South Korea said on Wednesday it would buy attack helicopters worth 1.8 billion won ($1.6 billion) from Boeing Co. to improve its ability to respond to threats from North Korea . The decision to buy the new helicopters was initiated... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14430361-s-korea-to-buy-16-bn-worth-of-boeing-helicopters travel-news Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:28:39 -0700 A U.S. military helicopter crashed on the border between North and South Korea, it was reported Monday. The military said that all 21 people on board were brought to a nearby hospital The U.S. Marine CH-53E made a hard landing... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14427481-helicopter-crash-in-korea-leaves-several-hospitalized travel-news Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:39:54 -0700 Published April 16, 2013 FoxNews.com A U.S. military helicopter crashed Tuesday near South Korea's border with the North while conducting routine flight operations and everyone on board survived...Forces Korea tells Fox News the Marine Super Stallion CH-53E helicopter made a... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14423388-chopper-crashesus-helicopter-makes-hard-landing-near-n-korea travel-news Tue, 16 Apr 2013 03:36:15 -0700 A US military Black Hawk helicopter has crashed near the border with North Korea, according to a South Korean defence official. The helicopter, identified by the Yonhap news agency as a UH-60 Black Hawk, came down in Cheolwon county, a... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14422071-us-helicopter-crashes-near-north-korea-border travel-news Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:32:04 -0700 Associate Professor Michael Green is senior vice president for the Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University. He served as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asia on the... noreply@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/news/14401885-north-korea-endgame-3-scenarios travel-news Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:16:48 -0700