Hong Myong-ki, head of an organization honoring Korean freedom fighter Ahn Chang-ho, talks about “Pachapa Camp,” the first Koreatown in the United States, at a meeting of the cultural committee of Riverside City, California, on June 15, 2016. The panel later agreed on the designation of the camp as a historic site. Ahn, who came to America in 1902, set up the camp in the city in 1904, when many Koreans worked at orange farms in the region. Hong said the camp was virtually a base for a movement for Korea’s liberation from the Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). The City Council will make a final decision on the designation on Aug. 28. (Yonhap)
I would hope there was more to this story because if his leadership actually thought not wearing a helmet on a hoverboard was worthy of an investigation then something is really wrong in today’s Air Force ROTC:
Chris Delzell (right) was commissioned Friday. (Photo by John Carroll)
A Baylor graduate whose Air Force career was in jeopardy after he was seen riding a hoverboard without a helmet received his commission as a second lieutenant after all on Friday.
Chris Delzell, 23, of China Spring, passed a physical fitness test on Friday and then was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
“I hope to help the Air Force get ready for the war that we’re fighting and the next war or any threat down the line to our country’s freedom,” he said.
The commissioning ceremony almost didn’t happen.
Delzell graduated in May from Baylor University with a degree in computer engineering,
The four-and-a-half year Air Force ROTC student says he was expecting to report on June 30 to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida to “start building weapons for our country to fight the enemy.”
But a week before finals last month an AFROTC captain spotted him riding his hoverboard to and from school without a helmet and wrote him up.
The report says Delzell used “poor judgment” and that while riding the hoverboard in the department’s offices, he damaged Baylor property.
Delzell says he nicked a wall, leaving a one-inch gash that he immediately offered to pay to repair.
Delzell said that was informed of the investigation, he was stunned. [KWTX]
You can read the rest at the link, but the Army would never have conducted an investigation like this. That is unless he wasn’t wearing his reflective belt then all bets are off. 😉
It is amazing how gullible people keep falling for these fake news stories they see pop up in their social media feeds and don’t bother to read the article. This recent example of a false news story saying Kim Jong-un was killed by a suicide bomber even impacted the Korean stock market:
A false news story that claimed Kim Jong Un was assassinated caused tremors in South Korea’s foreign exchange market on Friday.
The story published on fake news outlet East Asia Tribune alleged the North Korean leader was attacked by a female suicide bomber and killed in an explosion in Pyongyang.
The article also claimed the report was from Pyongyang’s state television network KCTV.
While the report was quickly dismissed on social media, on Friday morning in Seoul the story affected movements in the currency market, local news service Financial News reported.
The exchange rate for the South Korean won spiked to 1178 won to the U.S. dollar, before closing at 1172.7 won.
Defense stocks also rose momentarily on Friday but once rumors were dispelled trading resumed normal levels, according to local press. [UPI]
The LA Times has a good article on how the illegal Chinese fishing boats are not only destroying the local economy of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island, but also destroying the entire ecosystem that supports the blue crab population:
Chinese fishing boats operate off the northern coast of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island on June 12, 2016. (Steven Borowiec / For The Times)
The Chinese vessels have been driven to the South Korean fishing grounds by declining stocks in their home waters. The result has been a dramatic drop-off in blue crab catches, leading local fishermen to fear for their futures. (……….)
Park said the fishermen are working longer hours and coming home with less. “Pretty soon, there will be nothing left,” said Park, 56, dressed in a salt-stained black tracksuit and chain-smoking cigarettes. (………..)
Park worries that the Chinese boats are doing permanent damage to the ecosystem he relies on, saying they use a method called bull trawling, which is illegal in South Korea. Bull trawling entails dredging up everything in the ship’s path and damages the seabed. “They take everything,” Park said. “Even the babies.” [LA Times]
You can read the rest of the article at the link, but it is clear the ROK authorities need to do more to stop these illegal Chinese fishing boats. I am also wonder where are the Green Peace and Sea Shepherd activists at? Illegal Chinese fishing boats destroying an entire ecosystem seems like something they would be protesting.
This is a horrible case of rape and forced prostitution in Gwangju:
Police requested arrest warrants for two men who locked up a runaway teenager and allegedly forced her into prostitution, Wednesday.
The Gwangju Dong-bu Police said the men, aged 20 and 18, had invited a 17-year-old runaway they befriended via a chatting app to live with them, then turned violent once she moved in.
The victim stayed with them for 12 days.
Police requested arrest warrants for two men who locked up a runaway teenager and allegedly forced her into prostitution, Wednesday.
The Gwangju Dong-bu Police said the men, aged 20 and 18, had invited a 17-year-old runaway they befriended via a chatting app to live with them, then turned violent once she moved in.
The victim stayed with them for 12 days. [Korea Herald]
South Korea’s oldest jujube tree, shown in this photo provided by Boeun County of North Chungcheong Province, has found a new home in the county on June 15, 2016. The county purchased the tree from Namyangju, a city just north of Seoul, hoping to reclaim the county’s fame as the producer of top quality jujubes that in the past were served to kings. The county has lost most of its aged jujube trees to plant diseases. (Yonhap)
I wonder what burger joint Trump would hold this proposed summit at? Would Dennis Rodman be invited?:
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday he would “accept” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the United States and hold nuclear negotiations with him while eating hamburgers, according to news reports.
“If he came here, I’d accept him,” Trump said during campaigning in Atlanta, reaffirming his willingness to meet with the North’s leader, according to reports. “Who the hell cares? I’ll talk to anybody.”
Trump first expressed his willingness to meet with Kim in an interview last month, drawing criticism not only from critics, but also from his own party that such a meeting would end up bolstering the dictator.
But while Trump has insisted on his willingness to speak to the North’s leader, but said he won’t go to the North for such talks.
Should Kim visit the U.S., Trump said he won’t throw him a state dinner.
“I wouldn’t give him a state dinner like China or all these other nations who are ripping us off,” Trump was quoted as saying. “We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table and making better deals.”
Trump said he will only “make a good deal” if he were to hold talks with the North’s leader.
The real-estate tycoon was also quoted as saying that there’s a “10 percent or 20 percent chance” he could talk Kim out of developing nuclear weapons. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link, but I think Donald Trump is over estimating his negotiating skills if he thinks he has up to a 20% chance of talking Kim out of developing nuclear weapons. The only deal I can see that would convince the Kim regime of stopping their nuclear weapons development would be to allow them to conquer South Korea. This is obviously something the US would never agree to so what deal does Trump have in mind that would convince them?
