SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – United States Forces Korea announced Monday that it recently practiced Courageous Channel, a military exercise gear towards evacuating American civilians from the peninsula in case of military emergency. According to the Eighth United States Army, the Daegu-stationed 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command rehearsed the operation from October 31 to November [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent data from the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) showed that electricity consumption per capita for the USFK was almost ten times the average rate for the Korean military, again raising questions over excessive energy consumption by American military personnel stationed on the peninsula. According to KEPCO, electricity consumption [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Two supersonic B-1B bombers arrived at Osan Air Base Tuesday morning, a show of the solid alliance between South Korea and the U.S., and the strong will to retaliate for any provocative actions by the North Korean regime. The bombers left Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and arrived [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military is willing to provide security forces to the United States’ military units in the country to fend off potential terrorist attacks by the militant Islamic State (IS), which threatened to launch attacks against American installations here, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday. South Korea’s police [...]
WASHINGTON, May 25 (Yonhap) – North Korea is expected to collapse “much sooner than many of us think” due to internal unrest, former U.S. Forces Korea commander Walter Sharp said. Sharp, who commanded USFK from 2008 to 2011, told a symposium in Hawaii on Tuesday that he recently guaranteed new USFK commander Gen. Vincent Brooks [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The main contingent of United States’ forces in South Korea has started to relocate from central Seoul to a provincial city located further south, putting its landmark base relocation operation in full swing, the defense ministry here said Thursday. The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) and South Korea are currently [...]
POCHEON, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A united group of villagers set fire to bundles of straw near the U.S. military firing range in Pocheon on Wednesday in protest against stray bullets from the range. The Rodriguez Live Fire Complex, about 24 kilometers south of the tensely-guarded demilitarized zone, has been a source of grievances [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Army’s troop reduction, driven by budget constraints, could ultimately affect South Korea, even though American troops levels in the Asian ally will remain the same in the first round, an Army official said Thursday. Earlier in the day, the Army announced force structure decisions and stationing plans [...]