UFL to Continue as Planned

It looks like everyone coming from the states will get their TDY money again this year in Korea:

U.S. and South Korean troops will hold a joint exercise next month, the U.S. military said Friday, in an annual drill that North Korea routinely brands a rehearsal for invasion of the communist nation.

This year¿s Ulchi Focus Lens drill, set for Aug. 21 through Sept. 1, comes as tensions escalate on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea test-fired a series of missiles on July 5.

The exercise, conducted every year since 1975, is largely a computer-simulated war game ¿designed to train, evaluate and improve combined and joint procedures, plans and systems for conducting operations critical to the defense of the peninsula,¿ the U.S. military command said in a statement.