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Relocation of USFK Helicopters Announced

» by GI Korea November 16th, 2008 at 2:57 pm » Comments (11)

Remember President Bush's promise to halt further USFK reductions?  Well I guess he didn't mean it: The Secretary of Defense has approved the restationing of one of the two Apache reconnaissance ...more »

US & Korea Discuss North Korean Regime Collapse Planning

» by GI Korea October 29th, 2008 at 10:40 am » Comments (10)

It appears USFK is taking what RAND Corp. scholar Dr. Bruce Bennett had to say seriously considering the current announcement that USFK wants to develop joint contingency plans with South ...more »

US Reconfirms Commitment to the Defense of South Korea

» by GI Korea October 21st, 2008 at 5:27 am » Comments (4)

I just have one question where are all these soldiers coming from?: The U.S. defense chief affirmed that the United States remains committed to defending South Korea and that its ...more »

US Munitions Deal Dubbed “Sale of the Century”

» by GI Korea October 13th, 2008 at 1:43 am » Comments (1)

It looks like Kalani has his answer on how the transfer of US war munitions was agreed upon and financed between the US and South Korean governments: Sale of the Century ...more »

US Senate Approves Upgrade of Korean Arms Purchases

» by GI Korea October 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm » Comments (2)

This has been something Korea has long sought and it is just a Presidential signature away from becoming a reality: The U.S. Senate passed Thursday a bill aimed at granting ...more »

Songtan Shinjang US-ROK Friendship Festival (28-29 Sep 2008)

» by Kalani October 3rd, 2008 at 7:24 am » Comments (2)

The US-ROK Friendship Festival is growing -- but not so much as a celebration of the friendship theme -- but rather as a local showing of food booths and shopping. ...more »

Support Rises for US Troop Presence in Korea

» by GI Korea September 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am » Comments (11)

The normal caveats apply when it comes to Korean polling but this recent poll does show how non-sensical Korean public perceptions can be: North Korea’s nuclear brinkmanship seems to be having ...more »

Korea Continues to Delay Cost Sharing Deal

» by GI Korea July 23rd, 2008 at 1:44 am » Comments (18)

The Korean government is once again playing their delay games: South Korea and the United States have failed to narrow differences over how to share joint defense costs to maintain ...more »

USFK Confirms Talks of 8th Army Headquarters Move

» by GI Korea June 9th, 2008 at 11:22 pm » Comments (4)

It looks like the move of the 8th Army Headquarters to Hawaii is coming closer to one day being a reality: South Korean and U.S. defense officials are discussing a possible ...more »

US Seeking to Relocate 8th Army Command to Hawaii

» by GI Korea June 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm » Comments (12)

Secretary Gates has been in Seoul this week for talks with his Korean counterparts in regards to the future of the US-ROK alliance. Today it was announced what the ...more »

Secretary Gates Agrees to Maintain USFK Troop Levels

» by GI Korea June 4th, 2008 at 6:00 am » Comments (7)

This really isn't surprising considering President Bush said the same thing last month while meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, but US Defense Secretary Robert Gates who is in ...more »

China Calls US-ROK Alliance “Cold War Product”

» by GI Korea May 28th, 2008 at 6:50 pm » Comments (4)

China has had some critical words to describe the US-ROK Alliance: China Tuesday said it believed the military alliance between the US and South Korea was a 'Cold War product' as ...more »