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Excellent presentation https://t.co/r690eDLfpL & substantial paper on China-DPRK relations http://t.co/nEqox9ZlaY pic.twitter.com/qSCM6PnS88
— Adam Cathcart (@adamcathcart) July 23, 2015
Considering all the other Korean athletes that have gotten out of military service due to their sporting accomplishments, I am a bit surprised a golfer ranked 23rd on the PGA tour did not get a deferment:
Bae Sang-Moon said Wednesday he plans to play the rest of the PGA Tour season before submitting to his mandatory military service in South Korea.
Bae was denied an extension of his visa at the start of the year and challenged it in court. Yonhap news service said Bae lost his legal battle to have his mandatory service deferred. The debate was whether Bae had spent enough time out of South Korea last year.
“I completely respect the court’s decision, and I humbly accept the judgment by the law,” he told Yonhap. “I am sorry to those who have supported me, including all my fans and South Koreans, for causing anxiety.”
The 29-year-old Bae is a two-time winner on the PGA Tour, including the season-opening Frys.com Open last October. He was hopeful that victory would help him make the Presidents Cup team because the matches will be played this year for the first time in South Korea.
Bae is No. 23 in the standings, and only the top 10 qualify. [Associated Press]
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It will be interesting to see what terms the Japanese government agrees to, but I would love to see South Korea makes the same demands of the Chinese government to apologize for their aggression during the Korean War and continued division of the peninsula:
Beijing has reportedly demanded the government and ruling party of Japan include the words “colonialism,” “aggression” and apology” in the so-called “Abe statement,” set to be released next month.
The Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun reported on Tuesday that Chinese foreign ministry officials are trying to persuade Japanese officials regarding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s planned statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The newspaper said that Chinese officials are also demanding Tokyo inherit the apologetic Murayama statement that included the words “colonial rule,” “aggression,” “apology” and “remorse.” [KBS World Radio]
GI Flashbacks is a continuing series of articles here on the ROK Drop that chronicles important events and incidents involving US military servicemembers in Korea. Learn more about the servicemembers and events that have shaped the US-ROK alliance as we know it today at the below links:
What @realDonaldTrump thinks about South Korea. https://t.co/UTLIujYdIu
— Alastair Gale (@AlastairGale) July 23, 2015
Members of an amateur swimming association jump into the sea at a port in the southeastern port city of Ulsan on July 20, 2015. The 88 swimmers plan to swim about 400 kilometers to reach South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo on July 25, as part of festivities to mark the 70th anniversary on Aug. 15 of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. (Yonhap)
Maybe in the future we will see teenage gangs doing drive byes of each using drones considering this teenager was able to make one fire a gun:
A teenager may be in trouble with federal aviation officials after posting online a video that shows shots being fired from a drone that had been rigged to carry a handgun.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it was investigating whether 18-year-old Austin Haughwout, of Clinton, violated its regulations, which prohibit the careless or reckless operation of a model aircraft.
Haughwout’s father told WFSB-TV last week that his son created the drone with the help of a Central Connecticut State University professor. The 14-second video shows a four-propeller drone with a semiautomatic handgun strapped on top hovering as it fires four shots in a wooded area. [Associated Press]
You can read more at the link.
The North Koreans have just confirmed what I have been saying they have no intention of giving up their nuclear weapons:
North Korea said Tuesday that it’s not interested in an Iran-type nuclear disarmament deal, saying it won’t abandon its atomic weapons as long as the United States maintains hostile policies toward the country.
The North’s nuclear deterrent is “not a plaything to be put on the negotiating table,” an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. It was the country’s first official response to the Iran nuclear accord reached earlier this month. [Associated Press]
You can read more at the link.
DMZ Flashpoints is my ongoing series of articles chronicling the various incidents over the years that have occurred along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). A popular saying is that there is no “D” in DMZ and these decades of deadly incidents long the DMZ is proof of that. Using newspaper archives I have been able to reconstruct the events of what happened in these incidents all those years ago. You can learn more about these incidents and the brave servicemembers who gave their lives in defense of South Korea at the below links:
