Maj. Gen. Brian Wolford began his third Okinawa tour Friday as he assumed command of Marine Corps Installations Pacific. Wolford, most recently the commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Korea, first deployed to the island in the 1990s as a motor and logistics officer and led the 3rd Marine Logistics Group on Okinawa from July 2020 to June 2022.
It has been about a century and a half since the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and Navigation was signed between the Joseon Kingdom of Korea and the United States on May 22, 1882. Accordingly, Korea dispatched its first ambassador, Park Jeong-yang, to the United States as part of the Korean Legation in Washington in 1887.
The U.S. Army bus that carried international journalists covering the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) meeting between the U.N. Command (UNC) and North Korean officers at the Panmunjeom truce village unloaded us at Gwanghwamun intersection in the very center of Seoul, one afternoon in February 1968. Leaving the group, I walked up to The Korea Times building a few blocks away to write a story of the day s debate in the MAC conference room exchanged by the two adversaries of the 1950-53 Korean War that had ended a decade and a half earlier.
South Korean and U.S. Marine Corps have developed a five-year plan to strengthen combined amphibious landing exercises, a U.S. military unit here said Wednesday, amid the allies move to sharpen deterrence against evolving North Korean threats.