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US Forces Korea commander to receive Korean name at farewell event Posted : 2021-05-06 09:52 Updated : 2021-05-06 09:52 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, talks with U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Robert Abrams after arriving at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Mar. 17, 2021. Yonhap Outgoing U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Robert Abrams will receive a Korean name as a gift from a South Korea-U.S. friendship group during his farewell event next week, organi...

Posted : 2021-05-06 09:48 Updated : 2021-05-06 13:01 U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, left, head of the U.S. militarys Central Command, walks with U.S. Army Lieutenant General Paul LaCamera commander of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, after landing in Baghdad, Iraq, February 17, 2019. REUTERS-Yonhap Gen. Paul LaCamera is expected to take office as the new commander of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) around next month if his confirmation process goes smoothly, sources said Thursday. ...

America Has Swapped Currencies with South Korea, Now it Is Time to Swap Vaccines Seoul, one of Washington’s most critical allies, is facing not a financial crisis but an epidemiological one. The Biden Administration must respond.  In late April, the Federal Reserveannounced that it would wind down a swap facility opened in March 2020 at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic. This swap provided hundreds of billions of dollars to systemically important and sound central banks, in exchange for...

Military chiefs of South Korea, US, Japan vow to strengthen cooperation Posted : 2021-04-30 14:45 Updated : 2021-04-30 16:22 From left, incoming U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander Adm. John Aquilino, Gen. Koji Yamazaki of Japan, Gen. Mark Milley of the U.S., South Koreas Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Won In-choul, and outgoing U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander Adm. Phil Davidson during the military talks between South Korea, Japan and the United States in Hawaii on Friday. Courtesy ...

Report: U.S. seeking improvements to THAAD systems, including Korea By (0) THAAD capabilities, including in Seongju, South Korea, are likely being upgraded worldwide, according to Yonhap on Friday. File Photo by Yonhap News Agency/UPI THAAD capabilities, including in Seongju, South Korea, are likely being upgraded worldwide, according to Yonhap on Friday. File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI | License Photo THAAD capabilities, including in Seongju, South Korea, are likely being upgraded worldwide, ac...

By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 28, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO – Another six people with the U.S. military in Japan and South Korea have contracted the coronavirus since April 22, according to reports as of 6 p.m. Wednesday. In Japan, the spring coronavir...

Photo : YONHAP News The Ministry of National Defense says it is moving forward with a plan to secure a new large-sized training site for the South Korea-U.S. alliance amid opposition to joint drills from residents near the current sites.  In a report to the National Assembly National Defense Committee on Wednesday, the ministry said, in the long-term, it is pursuing a site equipped with anti-noise facilities and safety measures. Where the training site would be...

. TOKYO – U.S. military bases in Japan and South Korea that scheduled vaccination clinics with the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine either canceled or rearranged their calendars after the government halted the shot’s distribution. The Defense Department ordered a temporary stop to inoculations with the Johnson & Johnson, or Janssen, vaccine following six cases, one fatal, in the United States of a type of blood clot deemed “rare and severe” by public health authorities. At Misawa A...

By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 13, 2021 South Korea gave a prestigious medal to the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command a day after Japan presented him with its third-highest award. South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook during a ceremony in Seoul on Tuesday presented Adm. Philip Davidson the Tongil Medal of the Order of National Security Merit for his contribution to the alliance and peace on the Korean Peninsula, according to a ministry statement. Japanese Emperor Naruhi...

Robert Abrams, born and raised in the Bronx, went on to become a crusading attorney general of New York from 1979 to 1993. As a reformer, he battled