Archive | March 26, 2012

Can the news get any better from the Korean peninsula?

This just in folks, via Yahoo and AP. Looks like South Korea is not going to be bullied by the North: “We are studying measures such as tracking and shooting down (parts) of a North Korean missile in case they stray out of their normal trajectory” and violate South Korean territory, said Yoon Won-shik, a [...]

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Waking Up in the Land of the Morning Calm — The Bridge of No Return, Joint Security Area (JSA)

Reading about President Obama’s visit to the JSA and OP Ouellette this past weekend, reminded me of all the times I’ve been to the JSA/Panmunjom. My first time was on December 31, 1996, the day after the bodies of North Korean commandos, who had been killed in a firefight with South Korean troops (many also [...]

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President Obama’s in South Korea

President Obama’s in South Korea. There’s an international Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul this week. There hasn’t been a peep out of North Korea since they shocked the world last week with the announcement of a rocket launch in April to commemorate the 100th centenary of Kim Il-sung’s birth. There’s no question this international nuclear [...]

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