US & Korea to Discuss New SOFA Guidelines for GI Crime Suspects

This is pretty much just something to appease the masses in Korea who believe all the lies put out by the media and anti-US activists that claim that the Korean police are unable to investigate crimes due to the big, bad SOFA:

South Korea and the U.S. will discuss introducing new guidelines on investigating American soldiers suspected of crimes in a meeting of the South Korea-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement Joint Committee.

In the meeting slated for Wednesday, Seoul will ask Washington to “positively consider” South Korean investigative authorities’ request to transfer American suspects accused of crimes into the custody of the South before indictment.

The new guidelines will be similar to those that the U.S. and Japan agreed to after a rape case involving a U.S. soldier in Okinawa in 1995. After the rape case, the U.S. agreed to “favorably consider” handing over suspects accused of heinous crimes to Japan before they have been indicted.   [KBS Global]

I long ago showed the problems with the anti-US activists complaints about the US-ROK SOFA and I am still awaiting for one person to point out an example of a crime committed by a GI off duty and the USFK refused to hand him over?  The anti-US activists keep complaining about GI’s getting away with crimes and can’t point out a specific example of when this happened.