January 31st, 2012 at 11:20 pm » Comments (3)

One Free Korea has the scoop on how North Korea was caught shipping chemical weapons related material to Syria in violation of UN sanctions: North Korea tried to export ampules of reagents for chemical weapons to Syria in 2009, in violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution banning arms shipments from the country, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The United Nations plans to launch an investigation into the violation soon, diplomatic sources said, representing a rare probe into the reclusive communist country’s arms trade related to chemical weapons. The case
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January 31st, 2012 at 5:17 pm » Comments (44)

Via a reader tip, US soldiers are continuing to guard gates in Area 1 while G4S has continued to not fulfill their contract obligations.  In response to this, the security guards that are on strike and refuse to work for G4S have issued this open letter to US troops: Dear USFK Soldiers, USFK Korean national guard force are on strike since 1st Dec 2011. We have conducted guard mission faithfully ever since US Forces first came to Korea late 1940′s. Also we dare say that we also have been your
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January 31st, 2012 at 1:06 pm » Comments (9)

Via Yonhap.

January 31st, 2012 at 3:40 am » Comments (0)

That is what this editorial in the Korea Times is doing in regards to Korean convicted as war criminals in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II: Hiromura Gakurai was a prison guard at the Hintok work camp along the Thailand-Burma “death railway,” infamous for the extremely high human toll on the Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and local Asian slave laborers during World War II. After the war, he was tried and sentenced to death by an Australian military court for inhumane treatment of POWs but commuted to
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January 30th, 2012 at 11:59 pm » Comments (3)

The Chinboistas at MBC have decided to go on strike:  Unionists of South Korea’s public broadcaster MBC went on an indefinite general strike early Monday, demanding the resignation of the president and personnel reforms over what they called biased coverage of major social issues by the broadcaster. The union has argued that the broadcaster has intentionally omitted or reduced the coverage of politically sensitive issues, including protest rallies against the country’s free trade agreement with the United States and suspicions surrounding President Lee Myung-bak’s recent purchase of land for his
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January 30th, 2012 at 5:52 pm » Comments (10)

The Korean peninsula first came to the notice of Robert Kennedy like most other Americans when the North Koreans invaded the South while he was honeymooning with his wife Ethel in June 1950.  Considering that the President at the time, Harry Truman was a Democrat you would think that Robert Kennedy would have supported his decision to commit the US to war in Korea.  Instead Robert Kennedy was against US involvement in Korea. According to the book, “Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector” this is how Robert Kennedy felt about the war at
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January 30th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (4)

Via KBS Global.

January 30th, 2012 at 8:31 am » Comments (23)

So who is going to stay up and watch this?: Girls’ Generation will appear on two U.S. TV talk shows. The leading K-pop girl group will appear on CBS’ “The Late Show with David Letterman” as a guest next Tuesday and give a five-minute performance, their agency SM Entertainment said. They will present “The Boys,” the title song of their third full length album, which was released globally at the end of last year, the agency added.  [Chosun Ilbo]

January 30th, 2012 at 3:22 am » Comments (5)

As much as many servicemembers would love to see another US base in the Philippines it looks like that just isn’t going to happen: A top U.S. military commander for Asia and Pacific says there is no desire to build new military bases in the region. Admiral Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, told reporters in Washington Friday that the military’s goal is to have a network of places where American forces can visit on rotation. But he said the military wants to avoid the costly maintenance of
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January 29th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

Via KBS Global.