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Koike sends off SDF mission to Golan Heights

KOBE, Japan - Defense Minister Yuriko Koike (L) hands the contingent's flag to Maj. Yoshifumi Ogura during a sendoff ceremony in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 19 for a Self-Defense Force contingent to join the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights. Ogura will command the group for six moths from late August.

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Aso encourages 2 GSDF officers set to join U.N. Sudan mission

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) talks with Maj. Hironobu Tanaka of the Defense Ministry's Ground Staff Office (C) and Maj. Koichi Yamada of the GSDF's Ground Research and Development Command, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 21. Aso encouraged the officers to do their best to help create peace in Sudan during their assignment to a U.N. mission in the war-torn African country.

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UNC, N. Korea sign accord on cross-border railway

SEOUL, South Korea - Delegates of the U.S.-led U.N. Command (UNC) and North Korea are in talks at the truce village of Panmunjom on Sept. 12. The two sides signed an agreement later in the day allowing South Korea to proceed with construction work on a cross-border railway line through the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas.

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Koike sends off SDF mission to Golan Heights

KOBE, Japan - Defense Minister Yuriko Koike (L) hands the contingent's flag to Maj. Yoshifumi Ogura during a sendoff ceremony in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 19 for a Self-Defense Force contingent to join the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights. Ogura will command the group for six moths from late August. (Kyodo)

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Aso encourages 2 GSDF officers set to join U.N. Sudan mission

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) talks with Maj. Hironobu Tanaka of the Defense Ministry's Ground Staff Office (C) and Maj. Koichi Yamada of the GSDF's Ground Research and Development Command, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 21. Aso encouraged the officers to do their best to help create peace in Sudan during their assignment to a U.N. mission in the war-torn African country. (Kyodo)

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Former Khmer Rouge leader on trial

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Nuon Chea, former Khmer Rouge ideologist and second-in-command, sits as a defendant during a hearing of a U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 21, 2011, in this still image from a screen in a press room for the tribunal. The tribunal opened a long-awaited hearing the same day for three former senior Khmer Rouge leaders including Nuon Chea charged with committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the late 1970s. (Kyodo)

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Truce village of Panmunjeom

A U.N. Command personnel gives a briefing to tourists on the South Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjeom on July 23, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea marks 65th anniversary of Korean War armistice

Gen. Vincent Brooks, commander of U.S. Forces Korea who doubles as chief of the U.N. Command, delivers a speech during a ceremony in Seoul on July 27, 2018, marking the 65th anniversary of the Korean War armistice. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea violated armistice in pursuit of defector: U.N. Command

Video footage of a North Korean soldier crossing the Military Demarcation Line dividing the two Koreas in pursuit of a defector on Nov. 22, 2017, is shown at the South Korean defense ministry in Seoul as part of the U.N. Command investigation into the North's violation of the armistice agreement that was signed in 1953 to halt the 1950-1953 Korean War. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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UNC, N. Korea sign accord on cross-border railway

SEOUL, South Korea - Delegates of the U.S.-led U.N. Command (UNC) and North Korea are in talks at the truce village of Panmunjom on Sept. 12. The two sides signed an agreement later in the day allowing South Korea to proceed with construction work on a cross-border railway line through the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas. (Kyodo)