Pacific Militarization

DoD officials have declined a State Department request to send about a dozen Marines to guard a de facto embassy in Taiwan.

Jim Mattis said DoD is coordinating with State Department officials on how future negotiations with North Korea transpire.

More members of the Coast Guard could be headed to the Asia-Pacific region and Africa next year.

The remains returned by North Korea could be those of Army troops who fell at the Chosin Reservoir battle.

Dolphins joined the world's largest military maritime exercise in search of mines buried at the bottom of the sea.

The remains of 55 U.S. troops missing from the Korean War will be sent back to Hawaii next week.

North Korea accepted two truckloads of transfer caskets from the U.S. for the repatriation of the remains of 50 U.S. troops.

The U.S. and North Korean sides met this month and reportedly agreed on the return of about 50 sets of remains.

The North Koreans were no-shows for a meeting on the return of U.S. troop remains.

President Trump ordered the cancellation to avoid provoking North Korea after his summit with Kim Jong Un.