ROK Drop Links of the Week 1-7JAN07

North Korea may be developing nuclear weapons but it isnt’ stopping them from developing other secret weapons such as these bayonet retention springs.

In USFK news, a campaign to stop the sale of bootleg DVDs to US servicemen has been launched in Osan.  I would love to see a policy against bootleg DVDs enforced.  I wonder if a duty roster for DVD patrols will have to be started?  I wonder if the unit commanders will be able to keep a straight face when reading an Article 15 charges to a soldier or airmen found with a bootleg DVD? 

In Japan you might want to think twice before going skiing this year.  Also with all the animosity between Korea and Japan it is nice to see that they share at least one thing in common, drunks on trains.

In China there are fears of an invasion rehearsal due to the recent joint US and Japanese naval training.  If you ask some Koreans they would tell you it is not an invasion rehearsal of China, but for Dokdo.  In response China has begun to build up and expand their navy, but should the Chinese becareful for what they wish for?  While the Chinese maybe expanding their navy, the British are in fact reducing their navy.  Everyone else is free loading off the US military I guess the British are figuring they might as well. 

In milblog news, new military regulations allow the US military to try contractors and embedded journalists in Iraq under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).  Also here is a proposed OPLAN to secure Baghdad that is worth checking out.  The graphics themselves show quite plainly why securing the city is so difficult.