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 [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has revealed it conducted a special commando training earlier this month, in an apparent show of America’s military might following North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last week. In a Facebook post Wednesday, the Special Operations Command Korea (SOCKOR) showed a set of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States on Friday returned multiple parcels of its military’s Yongsan Garrison in central Seoul and two other bases north of the capital to South Korea, the defense ministry here said, a move bound to accelerate regional development projects. The decision, including the return of 165,000 square meters [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has completed the deployment of the newest Apache attack helicopters to South Korea, its aviation unit said, as the allies have stepped up joint efforts to counter Pyongyang’s evolving military threats. In a Facebook post last Friday, the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade said that [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Braving subzero temperatures, 10 South Korean Army cadets slogged through this week’s U.S.-led field training designed to gear them up for an annual international military academy contest slated for April. The three-day training at Camp Humphreys, a sprawling U.S. base in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, centered on [...]