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USFK Begins Process Of Normalizing Tours, (Pacific Stars and Stripes)…Ashley Rowland
U.S. Forces Korea eventually will allow half of the 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea to serve here with their families, a dramatic change in an area once considered too remote, and too dangerous for families because of the threat from an unstable North Korea.
As [...]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 26, 2008

Military Talks Set To Begin

South Korea accepted a North Korean proposal to hold military talks, a Defense Ministry official said Saturday. Ties between the two countries, which are still technically at war, have soured since South Korea’s pro-U.S. president, Lee Myung-bak, took office in February with a pledge to get [...]

POST: Catching up with the Kims, Thomas P.M. Barnett on October 22, 2008
My years-old diagnosis for the second Bush term remains valid: deal with Iran, push North Korea’s collapse.

 ARTICLE: Forget not their abominations, By Václav Havel and Kjell Magne Bondevik, September 19, 2008
… we must not lose sight of the fact that the North Korean [...]

U.S. Reaffirms Commitment To Defending South Korea(Korea Herald)…News Reports, October 18, 2008
The United States yesterday made official its commitment to deploy “appropriate” additional forces to South Korea if necessary on the peninsula.
Under a Korea-U.S. alliance agreement, if a war breaks out on the peninsula, Washington plans to send 690,000 troops, 160 warships and 2,000 [...]

ArmyTimes.comOctober 8, 2008
Korea Commander: More Family Facilities Needed

By William H. McMichael, Staff writer
Money and facilities shortfalls are the only barriers to lengthening troop tours and increasing the number of fully sponsored families stationed in South Korea, the top U.S. commander there said Wednesday.
“I would like Korea to become an assignment of choice for all [...]

U.S. Plays Down North Korea Threat, Washington Times, August 28, 2008, Pg. 2, unattributed

The U.S. is shrugging off North Korea’s threat to backtrack on an agreement to dismantle its nuclear program.
North Korea says it stopped disabling its nuclear complex this month because the U.S. failed to remove it from a list of states that sponsor [...]

Families Tell Of Hidden Korean War Executions(Los Angeles Times)…Associated Press, July 6, 2008
…Family members hold not only President Syngman Rhee’s right-wing regime responsible for their loved ones’ deaths, but they also believe that the mass killings wouldn’t have been possible without tacit support from the Americans, who were advisors to South Korean military units, [...]

New USFK Commander Talks About His Priorities (Pacific Stars and Stripes)…T.D. Flack, June 16, 2008
Just 10 days into his new command, the senior U.S. leader in South Korea sat down with Stars and Stripes to discuss what he sees as his top priorities.
I think the most [...]

Combined a few snippets on current event in Korea.
New USFK Chief Tours DMZ. (Korea Herald)…Kim Ji-hyun June 5, 2008. 
Gen. Walter L. Sharp, the new commander of the United States Forces Korea, yesterday toured key military points, including the Joint Security Area and Panmunjeom in the Demilitarized Zone. The new commander will also be heading [...]

Headline News from the SECDEF’s trip to Korea.
Gates Mulling 3-Year Postings. (Washington Times)…Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press. Extending the tours of U.S. troops serving in South Korea to three years and allowing them to bring their families is overdue, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday as he arrived in Seoul.
U.S. Vows To Strengthen War [...]