Author: GIKorea

South Korea’s daily COVID rate continues to remain at a manageable level. At this point it seems the government should provide weekly instead of daily updates just to stop the COVID fear:

South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell below 60,000 Sunday due to fewer tests a day earlier amid concerns of a surge in cases during the winter season.

The country reported 58,862 new COVID-19 infections, including 85 from overseas, bringing the total to 28,188,293, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.

The daily caseload jumped to over 86,830 on Tuesday, the highest in three months, from 25,657 a day ago but it had been on the decline to 66,930 on Saturday.

Yonhap

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What the ROK should invest in to compliment the Japanese military buildup is to invest their Army capabilities, short-range missile defense, and counter artillery/rocket systems to off set North Korea. Let the Japanese build expensive aircraft carriers, long range missile defense, and aircraft to counter China, but what we will likely see is Korea continue to build expensive ships and aircraft to keep up with the Jones in the region:

The Japanese government’s approval of a massive rearmament program to counter China and North Korea’s threats poses a new task for South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to look into ways to take advantage of Tokyo’s military buildup to serve Seoul’s security interests, according to experts.

“The recent updates of Japan’s national security strategy now demand South Korea to explore how it will use Japan’s military buildup to contribute to the South Korea-U.S.-Japan trilateral security cooperation to counter North Korea’s nuclear ambitions,” said Jin Chang-soo, the director of Sejong Institute’s Center for Japanese Studies. 

“As we use lines of credit for contingencies, national security also requires protection tools for contingencies. … Since South Korea needs the trilateral security cooperation to counter the North’s threat, there will not likely be a major change in the Yoon government’s dovish Japan policy. Rather, the focus should be on how Seoul can take advantage of Japan’s defense cost hike as an opportunity to improve its national security and how it can monitor Japan’s military expansion transparently.” 

The advice came after Japan, Friday, unveiled three updated documents on its national security strategies and proclaimed a military buildup, which is seen as the biggest one since World War II and a major breakaway from its defense-only principle. 

Korea Times

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This is another reason why something needs to be done about illegal immigration, to stop the exploitation of children:

At least four major suppliers of Hyundai Motor and sister Kia have employed child labor at Alabama factories in recent years, a Reuters investigation found, and state and federal agencies are probing whether kids have worked at as many as a half dozen additional manufacturers throughout the automakers’ supply chain in the southern U.S. state.

At a plant owned by Hwashin America, a supplier to the two car brands in the south Alabama town of Greenville, a 14-year-old Guatemalan girl worked this May assembling auto body components, according to interviews with her father and law enforcement officials. (……)

Earlier this year, Reuters showed how staffing agencies in rural Alabama recruited undocumented workers from Central America, including minors who had entered the U.S. without parents or guardians, and supplied them to chicken processing plants.

As with those minors, at least some of the children who worked at Hyundai suppliers used false identities and documentation obtained through black-market brokers, sometimes with the help of staffing firms themselves.

Korea Times

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It looks like Kim Jong-un decided to remember his deceased father the best way he knows how, firing missiles:

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles on Sunday morning, South Korea’s military said, days after the regime said it successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for a new weapons system.  
   
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) told reporters it detected the launch of two medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM) from Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province at 11.13 a.m. and 12.05 p.m., and that the missiles landed in the East Sea.  
   
According to the Japanese Defense Ministry, which also detected the launches, the missiles peaked at an altitude of 550 kilometers (342 miles) and flew approximately 250 kilometers before splashing down outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).  (…….)

The test came a day after regime leader Kim Jong-un attended a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of his father and previous leader Kim Jong-il at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, according to the North’s state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). 

Joong Ang Ilbo

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This is just totally bizarre and incredibly involves an O6 being involved in taking these pictures. The Soldiers involved in these pictures appear to all be stationed in Hawaii:

Multiple soldiers are under investigation for indiscreet activity while in uniform. Specifically, posting photos of themselves wearing dog-themed bondage masks while in uniform. 

As reported by USA Today, the images — many of which first appeared on social media on Dec. 9 — depict “male soldiers in uniform, or parts of uniforms, wearing dog masks, leather and chains. Some of the photos depict poses of submission and sexual acts. Another photo shows a soldier in combat fatigues wearing the dog mask on an airfield.”

Task and Purpose

You can read more at the link, but if you want to see an O6 with a bondage mask on click the link. You can also read more about this craziness in the original article breaking this story in USA Today.