Sentences with phrase «i armistice»

North and South Korea made history on Friday and agreed to pursue a peace treaty to end the decades - long war between them that ended in an armistice in 1953.

The general's concern was that bonding «discourages initiative in commanders, and destroys the offensive spirit in all ranks... Friendly intercourse with the enemy, unofficial armistices and the exchange of tobacco and other comforts, however tempting and occasionally amusing they may be, are absolutely prohibited.»

The DMZ, which snakes for 240 km (150 miles) along the 38th parallel, was drawn in the 1953 armistice that ended three years of bitter fighting.

In 1992, the two sides agreed to «endeavour together to transform the present state of armistice into a solid state of peace».

In a joint statement in the afternoon, Moon and Kim agreed to achieve «complete» denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and work toward officially ending the Korean War with a peace treaty; the war is technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice agreement.

Wang also told Kim that China supports efforts to bring a formal end to the Korean War, which was halted with an armistice, not a peace treaty, and North Korea's «shift of strategic focus to building its economy.»

«Technically, South Korea is not a signatory to the armistice and a peace treaty would require UN action,» Klingner added.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports on the historic summit between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea to transition to an armistice.

Geopolitical tensions have occasionally flared up since the armistice, although both countries have so far managed to avoid another devastating conflict.

«When I met with North Korean officials last year, they said that South Korea is not «qualified» to participate in peace treaty negotiations because it didn't sign the armistice and didn't have wartime operational control of its forces,» Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow of Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation, told CNBC.

North and South Korea have technically still been at war since then, as the cessation of fighting was only enabled by an armistice signed in 1953 rather than a peace agreement.

South Korean statistics estimate the North has abducted more than 3,800 South Koreans since the armistice signing in 1953, and family members separated by the Peninsula's dividing line are still forbidden from being reunited.

If the two Koreas can strike a deal, they might even sign a formal declaration of peace — the Korean War only ended in an armistice, back in 1953.

There are new dynamics in Washington's attempts to move beyond the terms of the Korean armistice, Michael Ivanovitch writes.

But replacing the armistice with a peace treaty is seen to have various implications for the region's security, including on what would happen to some 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.

A product - and - channel armistice would recognize and promote competition and choice for consumers.

These events and others have also commemorated the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War, in which Canadian soldiers fought and died alongside their Korean and UN allies to resist aggression and preserve the Republic of Korea as an independent and free state.

These events and others have also commemorated the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War, in which Canadian soldiers fought and died...

On this 60th anniversary of the armistice ending the Korean War, Canada remains fully committed to supporting the Republic of Korea in dealing with the North Korean threat.

A whirlwind of French charm just failed to forge a trade armistice between the Trump administration and Europe.

In advance of the US summit, the leaders of North and South Korea are expected to meet in the hope of laying out a framework for a peace treaty to replace the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.

Hostilities ceased on the Korean peninsula in 1953, when an armistice was agreed to.

By the time an armistice halted the Korean War in 1953, nearly 37,000 U.S. troops had been killed and more than 400,000 North Koreans soldiers were dead, according to the U.S Department of Defense.

He studied, dreamed and wrote, until, almost simultaneously with the armistice, was announced the publication of his commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans.

We must admit to the hypocrisy of condemning divorce while at the same time condoning as «marriage» a relationship that is little more than a cynical armistice, a mutual state of boredom, an arrangement of legalized prostitution, or an excuse for the continued subjugation of women.

Three years after the armistice, the World Council of Churches was founded in Amsterdam, and encounters and exchanges between Protestants and Catholics also became more and more frequent.

Without them, I see little prospect that we can have more than an armistice between hostilities.

At the onset of the Korean War, missionary personnel were vacated from the peninsula, but U.N. military successes and the eventual armistice brought a new era in the evangelization of South Korea.

Biologists are still very much engaged in the warfare between science and theology, largely because theologians can not, in good conscience, declare an armistice.

There was no way The Tablet was going to continue its armistice in the face of the Pope's presentation of his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, in which he convincingly (to anyone not ideologically parti pris) explained that his intention in restoring the unfettered right to celebrate and attend the pre-1970 form of the Roman Mass was to bring about a healing of divisions caused by the rigidities of the immediate post-conciliar period.

Yet the war led to a temporary armistice: Unionists and Nationalists fought and died side by side in the Irish regiments.

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

The prophets, writing in 1922 and 1923, sensed that the Armistice was only an armistice.

The Jalame checkpoint's lookout towers, severe walls topped with barbed wire and sandbagged gun turrets let us know we have reached the Green Line, the international armistice line that separates Israel from the West Bank, land that Israel has held under military occupation for the past 34 years.

We rested a spell, relaxing in an armistice, and I glanced over my shoulder to catch Tio's eye and to reassure him, but he was looking at Nena.

Sign the armistice war is over.

Since an armistice was signed by warring parties bringing an end to the Korean War in 1953, the U.S. has kept tens of thousands of troops deployed in South Korea.

From the armistice agreement with Jordan:

Every Arab country except Lebanon insisted in the agreements that the armistice lines were temporary, existed only out of military necessity, and should not be construed as final borders.

Israel signed agreements with the surrounding Arab states to define the places where the soldiers had stopped fighting, the armistice lines, as temporary de Facto borders.

For further emphasis, Hitler ordered the armistice to be signed in the same railway wagon in which the previous armistice had been signed.

A sense of revenge and historic justice for Germany accompanied Hitler's choice of the Compiegne Forest as the location for signing the armistice that meant the defeat of France in 1940, the same spot where in 1918 Germany had signed the armistice that confirmed its humiliating defeat.

The armistice lines defined temporary borders (the agreements stressed that the borders were temporary and only existed out of military necessity), and acted as borders until 1967.

Kim Jong - un and and Moon Jae - in have sealed their talks with a joint declaration, and a hug, reaffirming their commitment to the realisation of complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and pledging to turn their armistice into a peace treaty this year.

But officially, Israel's sovereignty over areas in the 1949 armistice lines isn't really in dispute.

Israel has erected a wall inside the West Bank, deviating substantially from the 1949 armistice lines (the internationally recognized borders of the state of Israel) with the ostensible aim of stopping Palestinian terrorist attacks.

The historic summit also agreed to push for three or four - way talks involving the US and China to replace the Korean armistice with a peace treaty.

The growth in Labour's local activist base and organisation was reflected in the elections following the war, the co-operative movement now providing its own resources to the Co-operative Party after the armistice.

'' (e) Insure that personnel of their respective commands who violate any of the provisions of this armistice agreement are adequately punished»

«Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured destruction (MAD), is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full - scale use of high - yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.»