Sentences with word «armistice»

In The Green Line (2004), Alÿs walked along the 1948 armistice line between Israel and Palestine, trailing a line of green paint behind him.

Though Israel's armistice agreements with Jordan stressed the mutability of borders, the international community does not recognize Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem.

North Korea just annulled the 1953 armistice ending its war with South Korea.

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.

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

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

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

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 last inter-Korean summit in October 2007 concluded with a declaration by the two Koreas to «recognise the need to end the current armistice regime and build a permanent peace regime» and «to work together to advance the matter of having the leaders of the three or four parties directly concerned to convene on the Peninsula and declare an end to the war».

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.

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

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.

The mayor argued that the event, which raises money for Catholic charities and celebrates the legacy of a late liberal governor of New York, demanded a rare partisan armistice.

While most of the challenges are expected to fizzle in the next few weeks, the lack of an immediate armistice is an indication of lingering tension and distrust between Senator Jeff Klein, who leads the I.D.C., and Senate Democratic Conference leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

For all the indications of an intraparty armistice, there are some evident personality differences between Mr. Trump, a brash Queens native who built a real estate empire off his father's millions, and Mr. Cox, whose quiet political pedigree includes working for three presidents and marrying Richard M. Nixon's daughter Patricia.

For instance, I can buy a version of World War I in which the Ottoman Empire mass - produces dangerous chemical weapons developed by a female mad scientist in a Phantom of the Opera mask nicknamed Doctor Poison (Elena Anaya), which a ruthless German general (Danny Huston) plans to use to sabotage the Bulgarian armistice.

«The triumph of American painting» became Abstract Expressionists signing the World War I armistice.

This is a calculated armistice that allows both sides to retreat to their base and claim victory.

The evolutionary armistice: Attachment bonds moderate the function of ovulatory cycle adaptations.

Citing the UN's proposed sanctions, North Korea spent the weekend declaring the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the Korean War to be invalid.

Following the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War, per - capita income in South Korea rose to about 17 times the per - capital income level of North Korea, according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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

We haven't reached that degree of armistice.

The spring 2014 armistice with Google has a major downside for Apple: it related only to infringement cases, not to challenges to the validity of its patents, a fact that was not clear at the time of the original announcement.

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.

We awoke this morning to dramatic pictures of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong - un waddling through the Peace Village of Panmunjom in the Korean demilitarized zone toward the raised stone line marking the armistice line (and de facto) border between the two Koreas.

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.

South Korean leaders at the time opposed the idea of a truce that left the peninsula divided, and were not signatories to the armistice, which was officially signed by the commander of North Korea's army, the American commander of the U.N. Command and the commander of the «Chinese People's volunteers», who were not officially claimed by Beijing at the time.

The Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, established as part of the 1953 Korean War armistice, remains the most heavily - fortified border in the world

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.

An armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, but no peace agreement — meaning that the two countries are still officially at war.

Since the armistice ending the Korean war was signed in 1953, all three North Korean dictators — Kim Il - sung, Kim Jong - Il, and Kim Jong - un — have had one overriding governing objective: regime survival.

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.

The latest Korean summit has particular significance not least because of its venue: the Demilitarized Zone, a 160 - mile (260 - km) long, 2.5 - mile (4 - km) wide strip of land created in the 1953 armistice to serve as a buffer between the South and North.

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.

Seeking a peace treaty can not be addressed only by the two Koreas, as the armistice was signed by the U.S. - led United Nations Command, Chinese forces and North Korea.

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.

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.