WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — House and Senate negotiators released their compromise draft of an annual defense policy bill Thursday, which calls for maintaining 28,500 U.S. troops in South Korea and deepening nuclear deterrence coordination between Seoul and Washington. They unveiled the final draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the 2024 [...]
CHANGWON May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry and U.S. Forces Korea have begun work to construct a shooting range for U.S. troops in the southeastern city of Changwon, without prior notification to the local authorities, sources said Tuesday. According to city officials and local politicians, logging work to build the firing range began in [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Friday volunteered as a one-day English teacher at an elementary school inside a U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) base. He joined a group of family members of USFK personnel to participate in an English play class for Korean students at Humphreys West Elementary School in [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Friday it has conducted the first training on the deployment of a “remote” launcher of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea. The U.S. military made public a set of photos of Sunday’s training, hours after the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States plan to incorporate “live, virtual and constructive” (LVC) training elements in this year’s springtime combined military exercise for the first time in five years, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Friday, as part of efforts to bolster readiness against evolving North Korean threats. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) will host a component command of the U.S. Space Force (USSF), likely the second regional space command to be established by the United States outside of its mainland, amid growing missile threats from North Korea, sources here said Saturday. The U.S. Department of Defense [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S.-based Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) and the South Korea-U.S. Alliance Foundation announced Tuesday that it has invited former U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) service members to South Korea as part of a temporary visitors program. The program was held for the second time after last year. This year’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) on Friday disclosed footage of its recent “routine” artillery live-fire training, after North Korea fired artillery shells on the pretext of responding to such drills. In a Facebook post, the USFK said that soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment (FAR) and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) unit carried out surgical strike drills involving its special commandos earlier this week at an American military base just south of Seoul, its public affairs office said Friday, following North Korea’s missile provocations. The USFK’s Special Operations Command Korea (SOCKOR) revealed on its Facebook [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has held a ceremony launching a permanently stationed air cavalry squadron consisting of new Apache attack helicopters in a key U.S. base south of Seoul, its officials said Wednesday. The 5th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade was activated in the event [...]