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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Camp Humphreys Delays to be Announced Next Month

» by August 31st, 2008 at 4:15 pm » Comments (8)

A final decision on the success or not of the South Korean government's delay games in regards to the Camp Humphreys relocation will probably be announced next month: South Korean and U.S. defense ...more »

New Command for Non-Existent Enemy

» by August 31st, 2008 at 12:09 am » Comments (5)

Nothing ground breaking here, but more details about the structure of USFK after the 2012 handover of wartime control have been announced: U.S. and South Korean forces will operate under three ...more »

McCain Picks Palin as Vice President Candidate

» by August 30th, 2008 at 12:24 pm » Comments (353)

The pick of Senator Biden for Barack Obama's VP candidate I did find to be strange since Obama claims to be a person of change in Washington and then goes ...more »

GI Korea in Hong Kong

» by August 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am » Comments (6)

If you are wondering why my postings on the ROK Drop have been infrequent recently it is because the wife and I took a trip to the Chinese city of ...more »

Tentative Voter Registration at Shinjang Mall: 20 Sep 2008

» by August 29th, 2008 at 11:53 pm » Comments (0)

Andy Jackson, who represents Republicans Abroad-Korea, made a post on Marmot's Hole about a tentative date for registration at Shinjang Mall outside Osan AB:  Right now, I have one tentative registration ...more »

Snippet: NIS and DSC under Roh Moo-hyun

» by August 29th, 2008 at 11:10 pm » Comments (3)

The following is a snippet of a much larger piece I wrote about four years ago after Roh came into office. After a while, I simply threw up my hands ...more »

Female North Korean Spy Arrested in Korea

» by August 29th, 2008 at 3:51 pm » Comments (8)

Like North Korea reneging on their nuclear agreement, I hope no one is surprised by the fact that the North Koreans are using the age old espionage tactic of sex ...more »

A Google Earth Profile of Uijongbu

» by August 29th, 2008 at 7:23 am » Comments (4)

In recent months Google Earth has updated their software to now include high resolution footage of the Uijongbu area to the delight of Korea watchers such as myself that have ...more »

North Korea Renegs on Nuclear Agreement, Blames US

» by August 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm » Comments (5)

I really hope no one got their hopes up about the recent North Korea nuclear agreement because it didn't take a psychic to know that this was all so predictable: The ...more »

ROK Army Finding Plenty of Recruits for Overseas Service, If Mom Approves

» by August 28th, 2008 at 9:48 am » Comments (2)

I'm not surprised at all that the Korean military is finding plenty of people to volunteer for overseas service: Applications have been pouring in for overseas military service at the Zaytun ...more »

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