» by GI Korea June 13th, 2013 at 3:52 am » Comments (2)

It will be interesting to see if this actually happens considering all the past delays that have occurred that have continued to push this off: Following the scheduled transfer of wartime ...more »

» by GI Korea April 30th, 2013 at 6:45 pm » Comments (10)

What I do not understand about General Bell's change of mind here is that when the transfer of operational control was decided the fact that the North Koreans would have ...more »

» by Leon LaPorte April 25th, 2013 at 5:52 pm » Comments (3)

[caption id="attachment_45252" align="alignnone" width="240"] Col.(P) Paul J. Laughlin II[/caption] Col. Paul J. Laughlin II, the commander of the U.S. Armor School at Fort Benning, will serve as an assistant division commander ...more »

» by GI Korea March 28th, 2013 at 3:14 am » Comments (16)

I guess we should expect the North Koreans to release some more bellicose rhetoric today in response to this: The United States air force's nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers carried out its ...more »

» by GI Korea January 17th, 2013 at 2:10 am » Comments (31)

It should no be surprising that the incoming President of Korea Park Geun-hye is a strong supporter of the US-ROK alliance, but that doesn't mean that Washington is going to ...more »

» by GI Korea December 26th, 2012 at 8:25 am » Comments (2)

This has been a very long time coming but it appears that South Korea will finally be allowed to purchase the Global Hawks they have long wanted: The Obama administration formally ...more »

» by GI Korea October 24th, 2012 at 8:30 am » Comments (5)

Just like seeing Yongsan Garrison be closed down and moved, the transfer of operational control in 2015 is something I will have to see before I believe it will happen: South ...more »

» by GI Korea October 6th, 2012 at 11:30 pm » Comments (22)

It looks like the US and South Korea have decided to agree on a new missile range agreement:  South Korea and the United States have reached an agreement on extending the range ...more »

» by GI Korea September 25th, 2012 at 6:07 am » Comments (3)

This seems like an issue that the Pentagon has pushing on the South Koreans for many years now: A senior Pentagon official said Monday that South Korea has "a lot of ...more »

» by GI Korea August 7th, 2012 at 8:16 am » Comments (5)

By the end of 2016 hopefully we will see this new joint military command established in Korea that will officially mean that the ROK military has taken over wartime operational ...more »