It seems like an easy fix to use South Korean made parts to fix these elevators until the US sourced parts arrive:
Repairs to a dozen elevators out of order at Camp Humphreys, some in housing areas, are delayed by a three-to-five-month parts backlog, according to a post on the base Facebook page Tuesday.
The 351 elevators at Humphreys must conform to U.S. safety codes, which differ from South Korean codes, so repairs to the malfunctioning 12 may not include locally sourced parts, garrison commander Army Col. Seth Graves told Stars and Stripes by email Wednesday.
The Army Corps of Engineers is considering a waiver for local codes to obtain the necessary parts from a South Korean supplier, Graves said.
Typical communist tactic of blaming someone else for your own internal problems:
The number of Covid infections in Dandong is rising, although city officials can’t establish a chain of transmission.Sun Chengwu/VCG via Getty Images
According to the local pro-government outlet Global Times, Dandong is currently facing a spike in daily coronavirus cases, and the border city has periodically locked down residential complexes since April.
However, city officials have been unable to establish a chain of transmission for the spread, nor have they determined how the virus is entering the city, Bloomberg first reported.
One potential answer they’ve reached is that the wind may be blowing the virus into residents’ homes from epidemic-stricken North Korea. According to NK News, Kim Jong Un’s regime has recorded more than 4.2 million “fever cases” — likely to be COVID-19 cases that the country can’t confirm due to a lack of testing kits,
It is pretty clear that the Korean left has nothing to hammer current President Yoon Suk-yeol on so they have come up with this so called “English complex”:
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s “unnecessary” use and praise of English has some citizens alleging he has a “complex.”
Yoon has been heard using English terms on several occasions, even when the events did not call for a mixing of languages.
In a meeting on June 10 with the leaders of the ruling People Power Party, Yoon brought up a name change for Yongsan Park, a newly opened former Korea base for the U.S. Forces.
While suggesting a new name, the president said, “When you say ‘National Memorial Park’ in English, it sounds cool, but when you say ‘Gukrip Chumo Gongwon,’” referring to the Korean equivalent of the name, “it doesn’t, so I don’t know what to call it in our country’s language.”
In another incident on June 8, Yoon spoke about how “In advanced countries like the U.S., former ‘general attorneys’ are widely positioned in politics and government,” saying “general attorneys” in English.
Yoon’s seemingly unnecessary inclusion of English in his official statements have sparked debate in South Korea as to whether the new president is showing bias toward the U.S. and the West more broadly.
You can read more at the link, but would these critics instead have Yoon showing bias towards China instead of the West? That is clearly what they are implying.
Objection to providing weapons to Ukraine Protestors from civic bodies stage a rally near the presidential office in Seoul on June 21, 2022, to call for South Korea not to provide weapons to Ukraine and to give humanitarian aid to the East European country amid the protracted Russia-Ukraine war. (Yonhap)
Just think how much crap must have been mixed into this school lunch meal if the principal was able to smell it enough to cancel lunch:
On June 13, a 20-year-old employee of a public school in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, was charged with mixing human feces into the lunch there. More specifically it was found in the okazu of the lunch, which loosely translates to “side dish” and refers to the non-rice component of a meal. It’s a pretty wide-ranging term that can refer to pretty much any food from fried chicken to a brick of tofu.
The incident occurred on Oct 8, 2021, when the principal of the school taste-tested the okazu of the day’s meal in advance in the staff room and noticed that it had a peculiar odor and discoloration. He immediately canceled the meal for everyone else and submitted the food to the public health center for examination. The results confirmed that it contained E. coli bacteria, and even though the okazu was made in a separate central facility, no other schools had any trace of fecal matter in their food.
Thanks to the keen senses and quick action of the principal, none of his students or staff members were exposed to the contaminated food and did not suffer any illness as a result. A subsequent investigation led back to the staff member, though it is unclear what her motive was or how she managed to mix the excrement into the food.
Congratulations to everyone at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute that helped developed this successful rocket:
South Korea’s homegrown space rocket Nuri lifts off from Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, southwestern South Korea, on June 21, 2022, as the country makes a second attempt to put satellites into orbit. (Pool photo)
South Korea on Tuesday successfully launched its homegrown space rocket Nuri in the second attempt to put satellites into orbit, reaching a major milestone in the country’s space program.
The 200-ton Nuri, also known as KSLV-II, blasted off from the Naro Space Center in the country’s southern coastal village of Goheung at 3:59:59.9 p.m. and successfully completed its flight sequence, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.
The rocket also deployed satellites at the target altitude of 700 kilometers as planned. Of those, a performance verification satellite successfully reached its orbit, according to officials.
According to Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Nuri’s first stage rocket separated 123 seconds after launch at an altitude of 62 kilometers, followed by its fairing and second stage rocket separations at altitudes of 202 kilometers and 273 kilometers, respectively.
You can read more at the link, but I believe that space technology is the next major growth market and South Korea is trying to develop the rocket technology to be part of that market.
THREAD Yesterday I spotted what was likely an extremely rare and illegal shipment directly from South Korea to North Korea The An Hai 6 departed Busan's northern port on May 18, South Korea and popped up in Nampho, North Korea a month later. https://t.co/CXIaySziul
Canadian veteran to be laid to rest in Busan cemetery This undated photo, provided by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, shows John Robert Cormier, a late Canadian veteran of the 1950-53 Korean War. His remains are set to be laid to rest at the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in the southeastern port city of Busan on June 21, 2022. (Yonhap)
ROK Drop favorite Andrei Lankov thinks that North Korea is building their nuclear weapons program to forcefully reunite the peninsula and the Hankyoreh disagrees with this assessment:
North Korean state-run KCTV showed the above footage on May 27, 2022, of Kim Jong-un directing a rehearsal ahead of the April 25 military parade. (Yonhap News)
In a recent interview with the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, Kookmin University professor Andrei Lankov said that North Korea has “had great success with focusing all its national capabilities on developing nuclear weapons and missiles.” He went on to say that North Korea’s plans for a forced reunification under communism are “not a dream, but a reality.”
As a basis for that prediction, he explained, “If the US were to fight to protect Seoul, the US president would have to consider the possibilities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York suffering multiple North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) strikes that cause countless casualties.” (……)
Also, how would the US react to North Korea threatening to strike its major cities with ICBMs to force it to stay out of the situation? Would it bow to those threats in order to avoid suffering its own losses?We don’t need to think too hard to find the answers. The South Korea-US alliance would respond to the North’s threat of nuclear strikes by showing their ability and willingness to retaliate forcefully. If the North actually did use tactical nuclear weapons, it would respond with massive retaliation.
You can read much more at the link, but I actually agree some what with both viewpoints. As things stand now North Korea will not use its nuclear weapons to forcibly reunite the peninsula because of the massive retaliation they would face and US missile defenses that mitigates their ICBM threats.
However this may not be the case in the future. The Kim regime has clearly been working to undermine the US-ROK alliance, most notably by pushing for the Korean War peace treaty during the prior Moon administration. If the US agreed to a peace treaty then that draws into question the existence of the US-ROK alliance. Any effort to forcibly reunite the peninsula requires the Kim regime to break up the US-ROK alliance.
They also need a credible threat to the US homeland. Right now their ICBMs cannot penetrate US missile defense defending the American continent. However, the Kim regime continues to test their ICBMs likely focusing on developing countermeasures to penetrate US missile defenses.
I there are no US troops in South Korea and North Korea has a credible nuclear threat to US cities would the US respond to threats made to the ROK? I think the answer to that question really depends on relations between the ROK and US at the time. I think it is more likely though the Kim regime will use their nuclear weapons to create a crisis to extort the ROK with.
