It did not take long for the Japanese to crash one of their F-35’s:

 Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, as efforts to find the missing pilot continued, authorities said on Wednesday.

The aircraft, less than one-year-old, was the first F-35 to be assembled in Japan and was aloft for only 28 minutes on Tuesday before contact was lost, a defense official said. The plane had logged a total of 280 hours in the air since its first flight, he added. 
It is only the second F-35 to crash in the two-decades it has been flying and could reignite concern about the F-35 having only one engine.

Reuters

You can read more at the link, but hopefully they are able to recover the pilot. It will be interesting to see what the cause of the crash is because this was pretty much a brand new aircraft with only 280 flight hours.

Here is a strange story of a Mormon missionary turned international lawyer and Korean citizen arrested for using drugs in South Korea:

Mark Peterson, professor emeritus at Brigham Young University in Utah, claimed Tuesday that popular TV personality Robert Holley, known by the Korean name Ha Il, who was arrested for allegedly using methamphetamine, was the victim of “dirty” Korean cops. 

In a posting on historian Robert Neff’s Facebook, Peterson, a Korea Times columnist, wrote: “Rob’s a friend of mine. The police have been dogging him for about a year because another entertainer who is guilty has accused Rob as a way of lightening his own sentence. 

“Rob refutes every accusation, and the police will not give it up. Several months ago they gave him a clean bill of health, but they will not give up. Rob doesn’t do drugs ― he doesn’t even drink. This isn’t a drug story; it’s a dirty cop story.” 

Peterson spoke similarly to Yonhap News over the phone. 

He was quoted as saying that police didn’t have any evidence and forced Holley, 58, to make a confession. 

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but Holley supposedly tested positive for drugs after doing a urinalysis and they have evidence of him depositing money to a drug dealers account. This seems like pretty damning evidence to me.

With the Moon administration wanting to phase out both nuclear and coal power what is going to power all these electric vehicles?:

Volvo Trucks, the world’s second-biggest heavy-duty truck maker after Daimler Trucks, may consider introducing a zero-emission vehicle in South Korea to meet the demand for environmentally friendly vehicles and to help further cement its leading status in one of its key markets, an executive of the Swedish company said Tuesday.
Volvo Trucks plans to begin producing fully electric trucks for commercial use in some European markets by the end of this year and to roll them out in North America next year.
“We have a number of markets that we are looking at (for the introduction of electric trucks). It is very clear that Korea is a very advanced market with the infrastructure being built up for electrical vehicles, and customers are adopting new technology,” Volvo Trucks International Vice President Anna Müller in charge of global sales operations said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link.

We don't know what #China spends on its military, but we do know Beijing is using the profits from #trade with the #US to expand its military so that it can attack us. Its senior officers publicly express their venomous desire to kill Americans. We're funding our own destruction. https://t.co/QC3QZ97pjx

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) April 6, 2019

Is anyone surprised that President Moon is pushing for sanctions relief on behalf of North Korea before any denuclearization happens?:

Moon Jae-in plans to ask the U.S. to ease sanctions on North Korea when he meets President Donald Trump at the White House this week, say unnamed South Korean officials cited by the Korean Times.
The South Korean president is visiting Washington D.C. for a summit on North Korean nuclear diplomacy, where the two leaders are expected to discuss how to achieve the denuclearization of the north and peace on the Korean Peninsula.
“Moon plans to embrace the risk of personal diplomacy by asking Trump to grant reciprocal measures after Seoul and Washington laid out the necessary groundwork via working-level discussions,” a South Korean official told the Korea Times.

Although it remains to be seen which sanctions Moon might ask the U.S. to revoke first, officials said he is likely to focus on those that impact the country’s citizens.
“It’s likely President Moon may raise the lessening of sanctions that affect the lives of the North Korean people,” an official said, according to the Korea Times.

TIME Magazine

The only reason sanctions are impacting the lives of ordinary North Koreans is because the Kim regime allows them too. They have enough money to fund a nuclear weapons and ICBM program, which means they should have enough money to spend on the welfare of their own people if the regime wanted to.

Just two weeks after the Korean government ousted him as Chairman of Korean Air in a possible effort to nationalize the airline, Cho Yang-ho dies of lung disease:

Hanjin Group and Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho has died at the age of 70 from lung disease at a hospital in Los Angeles.

According to Korean Air, Cho, who had been treated for the disease in the U.S. since last December, died just after midnight on Monday Korea time.

His wife, two daughters and son Won-tae, the president of Korean Air, were reported to have been by his side at the time of his death.

Arrangements are being made to transport Cho’s coffin from the U.S. for his funeral in South Korea.

An official from Korean Air said Cho’s condition drastically worsened from the shock and stress following the recent news of his removal from the airline’s board of directors.

KBS World Radio

You can read more at the link.

Moon Jae-in has chosen as his new Unification Minister someone that does not believe in sanctions on North Korea:

 South Korea’s new point man on North Korea pledged Monday to try to use inter-Korean economic cooperation as a catalyst to move the hard-won peace process with the communist neighbor forward.
Kim Yeon-chul, newly sworn in as unification minister, made the remarks in his inauguration speech Monday. He replaced Cho Myoung-gyon, who had served as unification minister handling inter-Korea affairs under the Moon Jae-in government since July 2017.
“It is time for us to reap the fruits of peace that we have sown so far,” Kim said. “We need to seize the opportunity for co-prosperity of the South and the North. We never know when such a chance will come again if we miss it.

“I will work hard to strengthen a virtuous circle in which we strengthen peace by using business as a link and strengthen economic cooperation (with North Korea) again based on the peace,” he added.
Kim did not mention any particular economic cooperation with North Korea, but he has supported the reopening of suspended cross-border projects, such as an industrial complex in the North’s border town of Kaesong and tours to Mount Kumgang on the North’s east coast

Yonhap

Here is Kim Yeon-chul’s background, as expected he is a North Korea appeaser:

Kim, an expert on North Korean affairs and former head of a Seoul-based think tank, is known for his strong support for more active inter-Korean economic cooperation and criticism of sanctions imposed on North Korea. He has said that such restrictions have not been effective in forcing North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.

Neither has appeasement and cross border projects caused North Korea to denuclearize either. In fact if anything the past appeasement strategy by South Korea is what gave the Kim regime the funding to advanced their nuclear and ICBM capabilities.

I like Bernie but Christine Ahn is nearly pro-Pyongyang at this point in her activist career. Not the wisest choice for an informational video about the Korean Peninsula. So many scholarly voices out there that could’ve helped #TheBern. https://t.co/zrRDnFQyiZ

— Benjamin R. Young, PhD (@DubstepInDPRK) April 6, 2019