A public service announcement in the interest of promoting greater trans-Pacific understanding . . . courtesy of the USFK: Current intelligence reporting indicates a potential for an increased number of civil gatherings in the next two weeks fueled in part by the following events: the anniversary of the 13 Jun 02 deaths of two teenage girls killed in an accident with a USFK military vehicle; the war in Iraq; and the deployment of ROK forces to Iraq. As a result...

The Pentagon today refused to comment on South Korea’s latest call for revisions of the two countries’ Status of Forces Agreement. The revisions, said to be inspired by the case of U.S. citizen and convicted spy Robert Kim, 64, would interpret the existence of a new “Korean Pride” clause within the text of the treaty’s article concerning the agricultural inspection of duty-free processed luncheon meats. A provision of this clause would immunize all persons of Korean descent from prosecution for...

Sure, it’s riding on a wave of sentimentality, and I hesitate at the current proposal to put Reagan on the $10 bill. The twenty, however, is another matter. That’s certainly justified, if for just this reason: Andrew Jackson was an outlaw. I’m referring to the Andrew Jackson who threw the Cherokees off the land granted to them by treaty . . . and when the Cherokees sued in the Supreme Court and won, Jackson dared the Supreme Court to enforce...

The Pentagon today refused to comment on South Korea’s latest call for revisions of the two countries’ Status of Forces Agreement. The revisions, said to be inspired by the case of U.S. citizen and convicted spy Robert Kim, 64, would interpret the existence of a new “Korean Pride” clause within the text of the treaty’s article concerning the agricultural inspection of duty-free processed luncheon meats. A provision of this clause would immunize all persons of Korean descent from prosecution for...

The Pentagon today refused to comment on South Korea’s latest call for revisions of the two countries’ Status of Forces Agreement. The revisions, said to be inspired by the case of U.S. citizen and convicted spy Robert Kim, 64, would interpret the existence of a new “Korean Pride” clause within the text of the treaty’s article concerning the agricultural inspection of duty-free processed luncheon meats. A provision of this clause would immunize all persons of Korean descent from prosecution for...

Sure, it’s riding on a wave of sentimentality, and I hesitate at the current proposal to put Reagan on the $10 bill. The twenty, however, is another matter. That’s certainly justified, if for just this reason: Andrew Jackson was an outlaw. I’m referring to the Andrew Jackson who threw the Cherokees off the land granted to them by treaty . . . and when the Cherokees sued in the Supreme Court and won, Jackson dared the Supreme Court to enforce...

Andrew Petty at the Korea Herald has written a story on the latest outrage of anti-American bigotry in Korea. I was actually quoted for the story, but it took Owen Rathbone to find it (minor correction–I left the Army several months ago). Read his whole post, along with his kind words about President Reagan. And be sure to read the story he posted about earlier examples of Korea’s xenophobic blood libels. Haven’t I heard that one somewhere else? Or was...

It’s apparent that the Korea blogosphere isn’t alone in its enjoyment of the delicious ironies surrounding our impending withdrawal from the Korea. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Hubbard apparently told a crowd of Korean brownshirts at Seoul National University that the U.S. was withdrawing its troops from Korea to reduce the risk of more dangerous training accidents! If that one wasn’t obvious enough, check out Budaechigae today, which quotes a Pentagon offical (via the Korean MoFA) as saying that “the United States...

If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with...

When I was a kid in elementary school and Carter was president, I began to believe, as many others did, that America had entered a phase of terminal economic and political decline. The advance of Communism everywhere seemed irreversible. I saw the same worry in my parents, who represented both sides of the political spectrum. Unfortunately, both bought into the myth that Reagan was an “extremist” and threw their votes away on John Anderson as a protest vote (they knew...

Andrew Petty at the Korea Herald has written a story on the latest outrage of anti-American bigotry in Korea. I was actually quoted for the story, but it took Owen Rathbone to find it (minor correction–I left the Army several months ago). Read his whole post, along with his kind words about President Reagan. And be sure to read the story he posted about earlier examples of Korea’s xenophobic blood libels. Haven’t I heard that one somewhere else? Or was...

It’s apparent that the Korea blogosphere isn’t alone in its enjoyment of the delicious ironies surrounding our impending withdrawal from the Korea. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Hubbard apparently told a crowd of Korean brownshirts at Seoul National University that the U.S. was withdrawing its troops from Korea to reduce the risk of more dangerous training accidents! If that one wasn’t obvious enough, check out Budaechigae today, which quotes a Pentagon offical (via the Korean MoFA) as saying that “the United States...

If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with...

If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with...

When I was a kid in elementary school and Carter was president, I began to believe, as many others did, that America had entered a phase of terminal economic and political decline. The advance of Communism everywhere seemed irreversible. I saw the same worry in my parents, who represented both sides of the political spectrum. Unfortunately, both bought into the myth that Reagan was an “extremist” and threw their votes away on John Anderson as a protest vote (they knew...

From Norbert Vollertsen, some mixed news from Beijing. The good news is that five defectors got in. An American and a South Korean ran the operation together. The bad news is that they refused to let in a sixth, refusing to accept his ID papers as proof of his North Korean nationality. One wonders who else would want shelter in a German school in Beijing. Does anyone else see some stupendous historical irony there? Norbert also included some interesting biographical...

Not sure how I missed this IHT piece when it was published. It appears that we are indeed headed for bigger troop cuts, and soon.

NK Gulag was organized just a year ago. In that time, they’ve endured official hostility and the threats of thugs. Of course, they’ve been through worse and lived to tell about it. If only we’d listed. I linked the newsletter here, on my main site.