Monthly Archives: June 2010

Is This the First Step To Delaying Operational Control In Korea?

» by GI Korea June 19th, 2010 at 4:42 am » Comments (6)

It looks like we can pretty much forget about the 2012 Operational Control hand over: The top U.S. general on the Korean peninsula will lead a major U.S.-South Korean military ...more »

After US-Slovenia Match Will FIFA Do Anything to Improve World Cup Officiating?

» by GI Korea June 18th, 2010 at 8:21 pm » Comments (26)

Hopefully quite a few of you had a chance to watch the US versus Slovenia World Cup match because it was a good game to watch despite the US being ...more »

State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report Cites Juicy Girls In Korea

» by GI Korea June 18th, 2010 at 4:22 pm » Comments (150)

US Representative Chris Smith continues to push the juicy girl issue outside US military bases in South Korea: A leading advocate in the fight against human trafficking said he hopes ...more »

Picture of the Day: North Korea Invades Los Angeles

» by GI Korea June 18th, 2010 at 1:04 pm » Comments (6)

Via a reader tip comes this image: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="In order to promote its upcoming shooter Homefront, THQ enlisted a group of struggling actors totally real soldiers. The ...more »

Michael Gerson Advocates For Fighting Information War Within North Korea

» by GI Korea June 18th, 2010 at 9:08 am » Comments (5)

Here is a great article in the Washington Post from Michael Gerson, which emphasizes something that I and others have been advocating for years, fight the information war: The North Korean ...more »

South Korean Scientists Clone Cow

» by GI Korea June 18th, 2010 at 5:08 am » Comments (3)

Even if there are only 600 of these, I still don't see the need to clone them?: On Wednesday, South Korean researchers said that they have successfully cloned a rare ...more »

James Garage Offers Oil Change Deal

» by GI Korea June 18th, 2010 at 2:01 am » Comments (0)

Via the ROK Drop Classifieds, comes this offer from James Garage: Just a heads up – for the month of JULY we will be giving $15 oil changes to all ...more »

Is Israel Trying to Sabotage South Korean Nuclear Deals?

» by GI Korea June 17th, 2010 at 9:47 pm » Comments (5)

I think we now know what the Israeli President was doing in South Korea last week: Israel has been pressuring other countries not to sell nuclear technology to Jordan, King ...more »

CIA Releases Korean War Era Documents

» by GI Korea June 17th, 2010 at 3:23 pm » Comments (0)

I really don't see what the big deal is about this: Documents released by the CIA show how the young agency struggled in the run-up to the Korean War ...more »