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Monthly Archives: July 2010

China Claims Sovereignty Over South China Sea

» by July 31st, 2010 at 9:37 pm » Comments (15)

This is like the US claiming sovereignty over the entire Gulf of Mexico or Japan claiming the entire Sea of Japan, which  both scenarios are utterly ridiculous, which is how ...more »

Is South Korea A Place Where Free People Don’t Want To Live?

» by July 31st, 2010 at 5:39 pm » Comments (15)

I like John Stossel and all, but this statement below is stupid: America is one of many countries that forbid openly gay people to serve in the military. Others are: ...more »

Picture of the Day: Four Rivers Protest

» by July 31st, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="323" caption="Two environmental activists, Choi Su-young, 39, and Lee Hwan-moon, 42, from Busan and Jinju, respectively, protest against President Lee Myung-bak’s four rivers project yesterday. The two ...more »

South Korean Prime Minister Resigns Over Fight to Move Capital South of Seoul

» by July 31st, 2010 at 9:48 am » Comments (3)

I have always thought it makes sense from a national security perspective for the South Korean government to move key military and government installations further south and its too bad ...more »

Royal Birkdale and Taiwanese golfers or Yani Tseng and Mr. Lu

» by July 31st, 2010 at 7:53 am » Comments (0)

Yani Tseng from Taiwan leads the Women’s British at Royal Birkdale by four shots with 36 holes to play. Should she win, Tseng would already have amassed ...more »

Nudist Forest Opening in Korea

» by July 31st, 2010 at 4:56 am » Comments (5)

Korea’s first nudist forest is scheduled to open in Jangheung County, South Jeolla Province in late August. The county said Friday that it is working on a therapeutic park, surrounded by ...more »

More Details On North Korea Selling Weapons to Al Qaeda & the Taliban

» by July 30th, 2010 at 11:16 pm » Comments (2)

One Free Korea has more on the North Koreans selling weapons to Al Qaeda and the Taliban from the WikiLeaks report that I posted on a few days ago. Here ...more »

Theme Maintenance

» by July 30th, 2010 at 3:27 pm » Comments (2)

I am just doing some troubleshooting to figure out what is using so much bandwidth currently on the site.  So I disabled my theme and seeing if the theme is ...more »

Picture of the Day: Going Postal

» by July 30th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (6)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Post office workers practice techniques for handling robberies yesterday at the Seoul Central Post Office in the central part of the city. As part of the ...more »

Joe Biden Takes Credit For Success In Iraq

» by July 30th, 2010 at 8:07 am » Comments (7)

I guess the first rule of being a politician is to never admit you were wrong even when it is plainly obvious: But even though Biden said the surge worked militarily, ...more »

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