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President Obama Selects Korean-American To Head World Bank

» by March 24th, 2012 at 5:27 am » Comments (30)

President Obama has chosen an interesting nominee to head the World Bank who is an American citizen that was born in South Korea and is the current head of Dartmouth ...more »

Sung Kim Takes Over As US Ambassador To South Korea

» by November 23rd, 2011 at 5:34 pm » Comments (49)

Sung Kim should be another good ambassador for the US in South Korea and it appears he is getting off to a good start by complimenting Koreans on their food: The ...more »

Department of Education SWAT Team Raids Innocent Person’s Home In Stockton, CA

» by June 12th, 2011 at 9:37 pm » Comments (15)

ROK Drop commenter Chickenhead often talks about the militarization of US law enforcement and then I read stories like the one below via The Captains Journal and I see he is absolutely right: Kenneth Wright ...more »

Sung Kim To Replace Kathleen Stephens as Next Ambassador to Korea

» by June 4th, 2011 at 6:40 am » Comments (6)

Sung Kim has a very tough act to follow replacing the popular US Ambassador Kathleen Stephens: The Barack Obama administration has tapped Sung Kim, the State Department's top Korea expert, as ...more »

Picture of the Day: Ambassador Stephens Meets with President Obama

» by April 6th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (5)

Netizens, I have been travelling more than usual outside Korea in recent months, one reason for fewer blogs.  One trip was to Washington, D.C. in February where Secretary of ...more »

Will US Servicemembers Not Be Paid Next Month?

» by March 15th, 2011 at 8:47 am » Comments (33)

I seriously doubt this will happen, because of the reaction the American public would have to Soldiers not getting paid: Troops would be forced to work without pay if the federal ...more »

Thoughts On Political Finger Pointing After Assassination Attempt On Gabrielle Giffords

» by January 9th, 2011 at 8:53 am » Comments (109)

It is pretty sad to see the finger pointing going on in regards to the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, but here is a post to put all ...more »

Is the Tea Party & Sarah Palin To Blame for Assassination Attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords?

» by January 8th, 2011 at 10:03 pm » Comments (78)

Right now it is unknown what motivated the assassination attempt on Congresswoman Giffords in Arizona, but I figured the media would start to blame the Tea Party for it: A gunman ...more »

Bill Richardson Leaves Office & New Mexico In A Fiscal Mess

» by January 1st, 2011 at 5:19 pm » Comments (18)

Kim Jong-Bill Richardson has finally left office in New Mexico and has left the Republican that won the election with a fiscal mess: Susana Martinez on Saturday will become one ...more »

Does Bill Richardson Want to Take Hillary Clinton’s Job?

» by December 27th, 2010 at 3:03 am » Comments (4)

Well we may now know why Bill Richardson was so eager to go to North Korea with his media entourage and be a mouthpiece for the Kim regime, he is ...more »

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