Text Fwd: U.S. consolidating forces at new base in S. Korea

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090301/NEWS08/903010359/1018

Posted on: Sunday, March 1, 2009
U.S. consolidating forces at new base in S. Korea
By Richard Halloran

PYONGTAEK, South Korea — The cold wind sweeps down from the Siberian steppes across Manchuria and onto the Korean peninsula, thence to brush over a wide expanse of rice paddies on which is being built a huge American military base. From here, expeditions could be launched to any troubled place in Asia.

The conversion of Camp Humphreys, long a small isolated post, into the U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys over the next eight years will turn it, along with the nearby U.S. air base at Osan, into a hub in the consolidation of U.S. forces in South Korea into 47 posts from the present 104 sites.

Of the 28,500 U.S. troops remaining in Korea after recent reductions, 18,000 will be here and another 5,600 in Osan.

The mission of this garrison and the air base will be less focused on the threat from North Korea, which can be met by South Korea's increasingly strong forces, and more on threats elsewhere in this region.

"Our mission is to provide the Army the installation capabilities and services to support expeditionary operations in a time of persistent conflict," said David Frodsham, a senior civilian official overseeing the garrison's expansion.

A senior military officer at U.S. Forces Korea in Seoul said that consolidating American military units into U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys would provide "increased strategic flexibility" to respond to crises elsewhere. The project will cost $13 billion, of which 90 percent is being funded by South Korea to persuade the U.S. to keep its troops here. If the U.S. ever decides to withdraw those forces, the South Koreans would inherit the modern base.

These changes in Korea are part of a realignment of U.S. forces throughout the Pacific. Nearly half of the 17,000 Marines in Okinawa, Japan, are to be moved to Guam. That central Pacific island, which is U.S. territory, is being built into a major air and naval base. A small base in Singapore is coming in for more use, U.S. forces train more in Australia, and the U.S. hopes someday to gain access to Indonesian bases.

Over the next few years, the headquarters of the United Nations Command led by an American four-star general will move here from Seoul as will the headquarters of U.S. Forces Korea and those of its Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and special operations components. The Air Force headquarters is already in Osan. The U.N. command has been here since it fought the Korean War of 1950-53.

The Army's 2nd Infantry Division, its brigade combat team, artillery, helicopter and other units will move from posts north of Seoul to this garrison 55 miles south of Seoul and 85 miles from the demilitarized zone that divides North and South Korea. So will a long list of intelligence, signal, medical, engineering, and logistics units.

The date around which many moves are planned is April 2012, when South Korea assumes wartime operational control of its forces now under a combined U.S.-South Korea command, which will free U.S. forces to concentrate on contingency plans elsewhere. South Korea already has peacetime operational control of its troops.

In Pyongtaek, U.S. Army engineers have undertaken what they say is their largest project ever. The size of the post is to be tripled, to 3,600 acres. Since the expansion lies in a flood plain barely above sea level, the engineers have begun covering it with dirt to raise the plain eight feet that will be protected by a levee ten feet high. In all, it will take 1 million loads in dump trucks to complete the task.

The new post must accommodate the troops, headquarters, motor pools, and firing ranges, plus 35,000 members of families expected here. Until now, troop tours in Korea have been for one year, unaccompanied by families. That is being extended to three years accompanied by families, which requires new housing, schools, medical clinics, sports fields and movie theaters.

The engineers are building high-rise offices for commanders, barracks for troops, and buildings with spacious family apartments. That housing, plus recreational facilities that include a gym with basketball courts worthy of the pros, an Olympic swimming pool, and world class exercise equipment, are intended to make Pyongtaek a choice assignment.

Richard Halloran, formerly with The New York Times as a foreign correspondent in Asia and military correspondent in Washington, is a freelance writer in Honolulu.

Text Fwd: USFK Looking to Enroll Korean Students in DOD Schools

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In the original article below

http://rokdrop.com/2009/02/27/usfk-looking-to-enroll-korean-students-in-dod-schools/

February 27th, 2009 at 6:08 pm USFK Looking to Enroll Korean Students in DOD Schools
in: USFK

Is USFK so desperate for cash that now they want to recruit Korean students to attend DOD schools in order to help pay for new facilities?

The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) made an official proposal to the Korean education ministry Thursday to allow Korean students to attend schools at its camp in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

The plan was unveiled when USFK Commander Gen. Walter Sharp met Education, Science and Technology Minister Ahn Byong-man in Seoul, ministry officials said.

Pyeongtaek will accommodate a new centralized U.S, base here.

In return for enrollment of Korean students at the base schools that will adopt the American education curriculum, the Korean government was asked to share a certain amount of the cost involved in building the schools.

The Korean government has yet to respond to the proposal. “We cannot say anything for now but Minister Ahn listened to the commander,” an official, who declined to be named, said. [Korea Times via reader tip]

It just makes me wonder where all the economic stimulus money the DOD received has gone to if USFK cannot even afford to build new schools on its own for its soldiers’ children?

Text fwd: US monitoring NKorea missile activity from Japan

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_US_NKOREA?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-03-03-06-23-02
Mar 3, 6:23 AM EST
US monitoring N Korea missile activity from Japan
By ERIC TALMADGE
Associated Press Writer

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan (AP) -- The U.S. military is closely monitoring activities in North Korea from its bases in Japan ahead of the expected launch of a long-range missile that could be capable of striking U.S. territory, officials said Tuesday.

North Korea said last week that it would launch a communications satellite into orbit. But neighboring governments believe the satellite claim may be a cover for a missile launch and have warned the regime not to carry out any "provocative" actions.

Analysts say satellite images reveal brisk activity at a launch pad in North Korea's northeast.

U.S. military officials at Misawa Air Base, which is on Japan's northern fringe just across the Sea of Japan from North Korea, said they are closely watching the situation but refused to provide any details about the possible timing of the launch.

"U.S. Army forces in Japan are always vigilant and more than capable of defending Japan from any threat, including ballistic missiles, and as always we are working closely with our Japanese allies," Maj. James Crawford, a spokesman for the U.S. Army in Japan, said Tuesday.

Amid heightened tensions, Japan's Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said it is "natural" for Tokyo to "respond to any situations" when asked whether the government plans to shoot down a North Korean missile.

Kyodo News agency also said Japan plans to deploy an Aegis radar-equipped destroyer carrying a missile interceptor to the Sea of Japan before Pyongyang's expected missile launch.

Quoting unnamed defense sources, Kyodo said the deployment of the interceptor was a precautionary measure as Japan cooperates with the U.S. military on the looming missile threat. A Japanese Defense Ministry spokeswoman declined to confirm the report.

Japan, which is within easy range of the North's arsenal, has long been anxious about missile activity from North Korea, which in 1998 launched a long-range ballistic missile over its main island and well into the Pacific, almost reaching Alaska.

Since then, Japan and the United States have worked together on ballistic missile defense and have built a multibillion dollar ballistic missile shield that includes interceptor missiles both onboard ships at sea and Patriot missile units that ring Tokyo and are also positioned on the island of Okinawa - where more than half of the 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan are deployed.

North Korea unsuccessfully test-fired a long-range missile in 2006 - the same year it conducted its first nuclear test - but is believed to have made improvements in its missile capabilities.

Officials say Misawa is a front-line station for monitoring North Korean activity. If U.S. military satellites detect a flash of heat from a missile range in North Korea, within seconds computers at the base can plot a rough trajectory.

Analysts say North Korea's latest threat is a bid to draw President Barack Obama's attention as his administration formulates its North Korea policy as international disarmament talks remain on hold. Obama's envoy on North Korea is heading to the region for talks with his counterparts to the nuclear talks.

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Text Fwd: Pacific Fleet Announces Pacific Partnership 2009

http://www.pacom.mil/news/news2009/200903/20090303-PacificPartnership.shtml
Pacific Fleet Announces Pacific Partnership 2009

From U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Mar. 3, 2009) -- Preparations are underway for Pacific Partnership 2009, the fourth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet humanitarian civic assistance missions, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT) announced on his blog March 3.

"This year we plan to head to Oceania and bring much needed supplies, medical, dental, veterinary and engineering aid to this region that has such a rich history with the United States," said Adm. Robert. F. Willard in his blog posting. The mission will visit Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga.

"For the past three years COMPACFLT has conducted this important humanitarian civic assistance mission in concert with allies, partners, friends and NGOs (non- governmental organizations) throughout the Asia-Pacific region," said Willard. "Lives have been saved and quality of life improved in many of the regions we've visited."

Pacific Partnership works by, with and through partner nations, non-governmental organizations and other U.S. government agencies to execute a variety of humanitarian civic action (HCA) missions in the Pacific Fleet area of responsibility from a ship dedicated to this HCA mission.

The mission is being coordinated with several partner nations and will be carried out in conjunction with non-governmental relief organizations. A number of military and civilian agencies are planning myriad details that go into a months-long mission which includes a variety of engineering, medical and dental civic-action programs to provide humanitarian assistance to nations in the Oceania region.

This year's mission will be based on board USS Dubuque (LPD 8), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock ship homeported in San Diego.

This year's mission will be more engineering focused, taking advantage of the unique capabilities Dubuque provides to transport and expeditiously unload construction equipment and supplies. Medical and dental civic action programs will be conducted ashore.

In 2008, USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), one of the U.S. Navy's two hospital ships, conducted a four-month humanitarian mission, visiting the Republic of the Philippines, Vietnam, the Federated States of Micronesia, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea. The Pacific Partnership 2008 team provided a variety of medical, dental, educational and preventive medicine services to more than 90,000 patients.

In 2007, amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5), conducted a four-month humanitarian mission, visiting the Philippines, Vietnam, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. During these humanitarian missions, the Pacific Partnership 2007 team provided a variety of medical, dental, educational and preventive medicine services to more than 31,600 patients.

For this mission, Dubuque will be configured with humanitarian civic assistance equipment and a robust multi-specialized team of preventive medicine personnel, veterinarians, medical and dental teams, a construction battalion and engineering personnel.

Photos Fwd:The Preparation of the Key-Resolve War Exercise is Going On.

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Photos by Cho, Sung-Bong, Tongil news in the same article by Jung, Myung-Jin, March 05, 2009

In camp Carol, Awykwan, North Gyeongsang province, the east south side of the Korean peninsula, the training of the ‘Army Prepositioned Stock-4 Draw ‘ is held on March 05.


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Mar 7, 1:53 AM EST
By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer

US monitoring NKorea missile activity from Japan
Mar 3, 6:23 AM EST
By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer

US to go ahead with military drills in SKorea
Mar 3, 5:27 AM EST
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Text fwd: The Unfinished Decolonisation Agenda for 2009

Text fwd: from Overseas Review, Debbie Quinata, and Agatha Haun

http://overseasreview.blogspot.com/2009/03/unfinished-decolonisation-agenda-for.html
The Unfinished Decolonisation Agenda for 2009
An Editoral 04 March 2009

The international community has reached the penultimate year of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism. Yet, the process of decolonisation in the remaining territories remains un-filled. The United Nations must continue to play its statutory role in making recommendations to the General Assembly for the full implementation of the decolonisation mandate contained in Article 73(b) of the Charter.

This article requires that countries which administer territories must promote full self-government. To this end, innovative means must be devised to expand the information available to the territories on the legitimate political status options available to them. The information deficit in the territories and at the United Nations continues as a significant impediment to the realisation of the right to self-determination by the peoples of these territories.

It is favourably acknowledged that internal reforms have been enacted in several territories, particular in some of the United Kingdom – administered dependencies in the Caribbean. It should be emphasized, however, that the delegation of some authorities resulting from the reform process was not intended to change the dependency political status. The U.N. must, therefore, focus attention on the intricacies of such constitutional adjustments which must be must be reviewed in detail, lest they be successfully projected as some sort of legitimate power sharing arrangement. Accordingly, the information and analysis available to the U.N. on these issues must be significantly enhanced in order that a more comprehensive picture of the contemporary dependency dynamic is clearly understood.

U.N. Member states have spoken clearly on these issues over the years. The regional statements of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to the U.N. Fourth Committee for at least a decade have continued to emphasize the need for innovative measures to increase the chances of success in implementing the decolonisation mandate. In this regard, the General Assembly in 2006 endorsed by resolution the Programme of Implementation (POI) first proposed by a former Caribbean chair of the Special Committee on Decolonisation. This Programme identified the role of the wider United Nations system and other relevant actors in implementing the mandate of the first and second international decades for the eradication of colonialism.

Had this Programme been operationalised as intended by the General Assembly, a number of mandated activities would have been completed, and the awareness of member states of the situation on the ground in the territories significantly enhanced. These activities include the analytical studies and analyses on the evolution of self-government in each territory, the case-by-case work plan, the reports on implementation of decolonisation resolutions, and the introduction of Special Mechanisms.

The U.N. must therefore endeavor to facilitate the implementation of these innovative actions called for by the General Assembly. Otherwise, progress will remain limited, with the U.N. technically satisfying its responsibility to review the situation in the territories, while not bringing about decolonisation, in earnest. In fact, since the independence of Namibia at the beginning of the 1990s, only one territory – Timor Leste – has gained the full measure of self-government – through independence. Most of the other territories continue to suffer from a lack of information as to whether the other legitimate political status options of political Integration and Free Association are even available to them, despite the consensus resolutions of the General Assembly which annually confirm their relevance to all of the territories.

The 2009 Organisational Session of the Special Committee on Decolonisation convened on 27th February under the chairmanship of Indonesia. One year before, several Caribbean delegations proposed the establishment of an open-ended Working Group to examine the situation in the small island territories, in particular, where there are no issues of sovereignty dispute which have overshadowed the U.N. deliberations. The predictable “budgetary implications” argument short-circuited this innovative proposal, however. This is a tactic often employed by the U.N. bureaucracy to stymie innovations proposed by member states, where no new financial resources are required, or the re-ordering of existing resources. The majority block of developing countries, the Group of 77 and China, reminded the U.N. system in 2008 that it is only the member states through the Fifth Committee can determine “budgetary implications.”

Thus, the U.N. General Assembly has repeatedly adopted innovative recommendations which would facilitate the decolonisation process in the territories, and designed to increase the understanding of member states of the situation in the territories. It is regrettable that these innovations appear to have no chance of being carried out.

2010 will be the final year of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism. It is clearly obvious that a third decade is in order, but it would only be successful if the modus operandi is totally revamped.

* For the full article*
http://overseasreview.blogspot.com/2009/03/unfinished-decolonisation-agenda-for.html

Text fwd: S. Korea To Establish Plane Airworthiness System

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3976729&c=ASI&s=AIR
S. Korea To Establish Plane Airworthiness System
By JUNG SUNG-KI
Published: 5 Mar 17:57 EST (22:57 GMT)

SEOUL - South Korea will provide airworthiness certificates to its military aircraft starting this summer to ensure their flight safety and help facilitate the export of its indigenous military airplanes, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) here said March 5.

The move followed the National Assembly's endorsement March 3 of a bill to establish an airworthiness certification system of its own for military aircraft, the agency said in a news release. The relevant law will take effect Aug. 1 after getting approval from the president and a DAPA-affiliated committee of airplane experts and technicians is formed, it said.

The government plans to apply the system first when it delivers KT-1 Woongbi basic trainer planes to Turkey in the coming years, according to the release.

"The introduction of the airworthiness system for military aircraft will help ensure flight safety for the military aircraft business, which accounts for more than 80 percent of the country's aircraft industry," the release stated. "In addition, the export competitiveness of the indigenous KT-1T and T-50 trainers will be improved to a great extent because of the system meeting international standards."

KT-1T refers to an export version of the trainer for Turkey. Under a 2007 deal valued at some $500 million, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) plans to develop KT-1Ts equipped with advanced avionics by the end of the year and deliver 55 of them in stages by 2013.

Under the envisioned system, the committee will monitor, inspect and evaluate procedures related to domestic military aircraft design, production and maintenance to check whether the planes are worthy of safe flight and their specifications meet international standards, Lt. Col. Koh Shim-jae said at DAPA's analysis and test trial bureau.

Previously, South Korea had to pay foreign airworthiness agencies to evaluate its military aircraft and wait for certificates, Koh said.

"We don't need to provide our aircraft development data and other detailed information to foreign agencies for the airworthiness certification, which will prevent our relevant technologies from being leaked," he said. "The domestic airworthiness mechanism will not only help reduce the cost and time for selling our military aircraft, but also gain customers' trust in aircraft technology."

Only seven or eight nations, including the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Canada and other NATO member states, have their own airworthiness certification system in place, he added.

Text fwd: S. Korea, Australia Adopt Security Pact

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3976333&c=ASI&s=TOP
S. Korea, Australia Adopt Security Pact
By JUNG SUNG-KI
Published: 5 Mar 14:55 EST (19:55 GMT)

SEOUL - Leaders of South Korea and Australia announced March 5 a pact aimed at improving the two nations' defense and security relations.

According to a joint statement issued at the end of the Canberra summit between South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, both countries pledged joint efforts on global disarmament and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The two countries will "continue to expand cooperation on global disarmament and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery,'' the statement said.

The two Asia-Pacific allies will also join forces to counter a range of global security threats, including terrorism, drug smuggling, people and weapon trafficking, and piracy, it said.

The pact calls for increasing joint military training exercises and peacekeeping operations, as well as military-to-military exchanges and cooperation in defense industry, including the exploration of airborne early warning and control aircraft.

To establish closer defense relationships, Lee and Rudd agreed on a separate "treaty-status" accord that would protect the sharing of classified military information, such as trade deals on defense goods, according to the statement.

"I believe that when we have a future-oriented relationship, security issues must also be discussed and through such cooperation in the security area, we can ensure the peace and security of the region," Rudd said in a joint press conference after the summit talks.

The Australian leader urged North Korea to halt "threatening language" and return to six-party talks over its nuclear weapon program.

"I think it would be very wise for the regime in Pyongyang to get back properly to the negotiating table through the six-party talks and to adopt a reasonable posture to bring about a long-term, peaceful solution to the Korean Peninsula," he said.

As for the North's recent moves to test-fire a long-range missile capable of hitting U.S. soil, he said the communist state must be "very mindful" of the relevant U.N. Security Council resolution.

He apparently was referring to the council's Resolution 1718, adopted after the North test-fired several missiles off the eastern coast toward Japan in 2006, including a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile believed to have a range of 6,700 kilometers. The resolution prohibits North Korea from any missile-related activities.

Lee arrived in the Australian capital city earlier in the day as part of his regional trip that has already taken him to New Zealand and will end in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta.

Text fwd: S. Korea encouraged UN Command to ignore N. Korea’s proposal for talks

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'PANMUNJEOM -- North Korean soldiers look southward inside the Demilitarized Zone in the truce village of Panmunjeom on November 21, 2008.'

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/342354.html

S. Korea encouraged UN Command to ignore N. Korea’s proposal for talks
Talks took place only because of agreement from the U.S., according to one source
Hankyeoreh, posted on March 5, 2009

The South Korean government suggested the United Nations Command ignore a proposition made by North Korea on Feb. 28 that there be top military talks between the North and the UN Command, but the United States said yes to the same meeting that eventually took place on March 2, saying it would be better to actually meet and talk.

According to a source knowledgeable about the U.S.-South Korean relationship, the talks between the North and the UN Command of March 2 happened only because the United States said it would meet with the Northerners in its capacity as part of the UN Command after Seoul said it wanted to ignore the North’s proposal and not have a meeting.

“The different judgments and responses by Seoul and Washington show you there are no small differences between the two countries about how they view the recent political situation on the Korean Peninsula and their strategies for dealing with the North,” the source said. The reason the UN Command met with the North on March 2 without first having revealed the North had proposed the closed meeting appears to have been because South Korean and American authorities needed time to reconcile their positions.

A South Korean Ministry of National Defense official, however, insisted that “our government was positive about the talks from the very start” and that there “weren’t any points of discord or differences of opinion between us and the Americans.”

While the Seoul government has said close to nothing about the talks, the UN Command and American officials are calling the meeting “useful,” with a U.S. State Department spokesperson saying the United States welcomes such talks since they “prevent misunderstanding.”

The meeting March 2 was a “general-level” military talk, the first of its kind in roughly six and a half years. A “colonel-level” meeting is scheduled on March 5 and a “general-level” meting on March 6. Both meetings will take place in Panmunjom.

The North proposed the March 2 meeting on Feb. 28, when it sent a prepared telephone statement in the name of an “official responsible for working-level military affairs” in “North-South Management Sector of the West and East Sea Zone.” The statement criticized what it called “American military provocations in the North-South Management Sector” (nambuk gwalli guyeok) and called for the end to U.S.-South Korean military exercises scheduled for March 9-20.

Please direct questions or comments to [englishhani@hani.co.kr]

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North Korea, U.N. slated to restart talks
By Jimmy Norris, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, March 7, 2009

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=61074
U.N. Command attends talks with North Korea
Pyongyang reportedly called meeting to reduce tension
By Jimmy Norris, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, March 4, 2009


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Stop the Key Resolve War Exercise!

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Map 1: U.S. precison attack plan against the North Korea (SPARK)

Map 2: War exercise posts throughtout the South Korea (SPARK)

Photo 1: Lee, Ki-Tae, Work and World (Nodongkwa Segye), the Korean News Center of the Korean Confederation of the Trade Unions

Photo 2: Yonhap News Agency

According to the Solidary for Peace And Reunification of Korea(SPARK) public education material and other Korean articles

The US-SK military’s annual co-exercise of the Key Resolve from March 9 to March 20 throughout the areas of the South Korea is lead by the TANGO(Theater Air, Navy, Ground Operation) post in Sungnam, Gyeonggi Province.

It employs 46,000 personals including the 20,000 South Korean soldiers, 10,000 soldiers from the United States Forces of Korea and 16,000U.S. soldiers from the mainland U.S.A. and Kadena AFB in Japan. The nuclear powered aircraft carrier Stennis is also employed.

While the Ministry of the National Defense in the South Korea says it is for the protection from the possible attack of the North Korea, the progressive civil societies including the Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Jinbo Korea(Progressive Korea) say the aim of the exercise is for the preemptive attack against the North Korea, following the Operational Plan 5027.

The SPARK says the exercise is specifically to train of the deployment process by the additional U.S. force: R(reception)_ S(staging)_ O(onward movement)_I(integration). The RSOI was the originl name of the war exercise before the name was changed to 'Key Resolve'.


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http://www.spark946.org/bugsboard/index.php?BBS=s_news&action=viewForm&uid=2130&page=1

http://spark946.org/bugsboard/index.php?BBS=s_conews&action=viewForm&uid=6304&page=1

http://spark946.org/bugsboard/index.php?BBS=s_conews&action=viewForm&uid=6297&page=1


*Related English articles in 2008*

Stop Tanks for Peace" - Below the bridge, War exercises, On the bridge, Calls for peace Date 2008/03/07
While U.S. troops and S.Korean army hold war exercises, Key Resolve / Foal Eagle, peace activists demonstrated near the Han River.

"Stop war exercises Key Resolve / Foal Eagle."
2008/03/03


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