Foreign students get busy plating food at the Korean Food Institute of Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul on Aug. 19, 2016. The students are participating in the institute’s program that teaches traditions in cooking Korean cuisine. (Photo provided by Sookmyung Women’s University) (Yonhap)
Via a reader tip comes this news of how the Chinese flew three aircraft into the ROK’s air defense identification zone:
South Korean forces scrambled fighter jets to escort three Chinese military planes after they entered an overlapping air defence zone. The Chinese aircraft are reported to have flown into the airspace on Thursday, 18 August near South Korea’s island of Jeju without alerting authorities in Seoul.
Beijing’s aircraft, which included a bomber, quickly left the airspace after South Korean authorities issued a warning and dispatched the fighter jets, a military source told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. [IB Times]
You can read more at the link, but I agree with the article’s assessment that the Chinese are militarily showing their displeasure against the ROK’s decision to deploy THAAD to South Korea.
This woman has absolutely no shame. If anything she should be forced to pay child support to her two kids, not take their money:
I watched as Kyung-hwan’s eyes reddened with rage as the judge read out the ruling last month at a court in Daegu. His birth mother, who recently recovered parental rights over him and his two younger brothers, was ruled ineligible to claim the insurance left behind by his dad, her ex-husband, for the time being.
She was told to wait until a separate trial determines whether or not she could continue being the legal parent over the three boys.
After the father died last September in a car accident, his sons were to receive 600 million won ($548,400), but all three boys were underage, meaning they couldn’t claim the cash without a legal guardian.
Their mother, who left them six years ago and divorced their dad, returned several months ago to tell them she had gained parental rights over them. It was the first time in six years that the boys had ever seen her. They later heard she called the insurance company asking how much her ex-husband had left behind. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
You can read the rest at the link, but according to the article the kids hired a lawyer to stop their mom from claiming the life insurance money left by their father after his death.
I can only imagine what the North Korean athletes must have been thinking when they saw this:
North Korea is notorious for keeping a close eye on its athletes during international competition. Kim Jong-un has been spotted several times in the crowd in Rio, but not even North Korean athletes thought he would be this close to the action.
Or at least it appeared to be him.
For those that don’t know, Kim Jong-un is the isolated leader of the People’s Republic of North Korea. “Kim Jong-un,” however, is the life of the party.
The Glorious Leader may not have made it to the Olympic games, but his impersonator definitely did. The Australian-Hongkonger known as “Howard” made his presence felt at the track and field events, where cameras and vigilant viewers have seen him. [Yahoo News]
You can read more at the link, but this guy needs to gain a lot more weight to really look Kim Jong-un.
A competitor of the wakeboarding competition “2016 Wakeboard World Series” rides on the board high into the air on the Han River on Aug. 21, 2016. (Yonhap)
It seems that if the Chinese are coming out and threatening the Japanese with military action for moving their ships through waters that an International Court has said is not Chinese; this almost forces the Japanese to sail through them to force the point that these are international waters and that they will not be intimidated:
Satellite images of South China Sea taken show China’s construction of aircraft hangars on the disputed Spratly islands
Beijing is thought to have threatened Japan that it would launch military action if Tokyo pressed ahead with its stance on the South China Sea dispute. Chinese officials are reported to have conveyed the warning to a top-ranking Japanese official in June.
According to diplomatic sources, cited by Japan’s Kyodo news agency, China’s ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, told Japan that it would cross a “red line” if Japanese vessels took part in the so-called freedom of navigation operations launched by the US in the South China Sea. Cheng even went on to indicate that Beijing would not hesitate to take military action. This emerged only on Sunday, 21 August though the incident reportedly occurred in June. [IB Times]
In its first official response to the high-profile defection, the North accused the South of launching an “anti-DPRK (North Korea) smear campaign and confrontation.”
“The Park Geun-hye group of traitors in South Korea carried out an operation to bring to South Korea a DPRK’s diplomat who fled his mission in London with his family for fear of legal punishment for his crimes,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in an English dispatch monitored in Seoul.
The KCNA did not identify Thae by his name but claimed the fugitive “was instructed to return home in June last for questioning as regards the embezzlement of huge amount of state funds, leakage of state secrets for money and rape of a minor.” [Yonhap]
