It is pretty rare for one of these drones to crash and fortunately no one on the ground was hurt:
A U.S. Air Force unit based in South Korea said Tuesday it is currently investigating the cause of the recent crash of its MQ-9 Reaper drone off the country’s west coast.
On Monday, the U.S. Air Force drone stationed at Kunsan Air Base crashed near Maldo-ri Island off the western city of Gunsan, about 180 kilometers south of Seoul, although no injuries or damage were reported.
“The incident is still under investigation,” the 8th Fighter Wing said in response to Yonhap News Agency’s inquiry about the cause of the accident. “In the meantime, we can confirm … when an incident happens, we immediately conduct thorough investigations, implement corrective actions, and ensure accountability at every level.”
You can read more at the link.
It looks like PM Takaichi plans to bring Japan’s corporate tendency to work extremely long hours to the government:
“I’ll abandon work-life balance.”
That was Japan’s new far-right Prime Minister’s victory speech vow.
Sanae Takaichi was talking about how she’d lead her own party. Not reform the nation’s notoriously long work weeks.
But the comments still let loose a pretty big backlash.
Sounds like overkill, right? Well, when you look at what followed in her first few weeks in office, probably not.
Weeks later, Takaichi summoned her team for a meeting. With a casual 3 a.m. calltime. She also urged her labor minister to relax the rules on overtime work.
So this is about more than just talking points. And there’s another reason it’s hitting a nerve.
Behind Japan’s legendary work ethic lurks a dark secret.
For decades, the country has been plagued by people driven to an early death by the stress of their never-ending jobs.
You can read more at the link, but she held the cabinet meeting at 3:00 AM in preparation for a 9:00 AM address to Parliament.
Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk is still riding high with a presidential pardon, having most of his political enemies arrested or in jail, and now being elected as the leader of his minor party with almost North Korea like voter approval. Few people have had such as change in fortune more than Cho Kuk with the election of a new President:
The minor Rebuilding Korea Party on Sunday elected former Justice Minister Cho Kuk as its leader with 98.6 percent approval.
Cho was the only candidate in the election held during a national convention in Cheongju, 137 kilometers south of Seoul.
In a speech, he pledged to chart a new path not taken by either of the major political parties “with only the people’s will as the compass.”
“We are embarking in earnest on a voyage to political reform, people’s livelihood reform, economic reform, social reform and human rights reform,” he said.
Cho, who founded and previously led the minor party, returned to politics after receiving a special presidential pardon in August while serving a two-year prison term for academic fraud involving his children and unlawful interference with a government inspection.
You can read more at the link.
This is literally internatonal political version of the bully running to the teacher that they are being bullied because someone decided to standup to them bullying their classmate:
China has taken its growing dispute with Japan to the United Nations, accusing Tokyo of threatening “an armed intervention” over Taiwan and vowing to defend itself in its strongest language yet in the two-week-old dispute.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi committed “a grave violation of international law” and diplomatic norms when she said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo, China’s U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong wrote in a letter on Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
You can read more at the link.
