The recent suggestion by retired Korean Air Force officer Kim Hyung-chul to conscript women to counter the country’s declining birth rate has sparked a heated debate. Enlisting women in the ...

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The chief of a military think tank in South Korea has sparked controversy after suggesting that conscripting women into the military could boost marriage and fertility rates. Kim Hyung-chul ...

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"Obviously, if we get involved in a general war with Russia, we’ll be conscripting the population - there’s no question about that," the Liberal Democrat added. "Being prepared generates ...

while the Rwanda-backed rebels claim to be conscripting thousands of Congolese soldiers who have surrendered to their onslaught. Finally, Eritrean star Henok Mulubrhan has won the first stage of ...

JERUSALEM, June 10 (Reuters) - Israel's parliament moved ahead with a contentious law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox religious students into the military amid angry scenes on Monday in the Knesset ...

This week, Israel’s government announced that starting Sunday, it would begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men for the first time in the country’s 76-year history. The statement came ...