[milkncookies]

Rumors of active reserves being called up. Air Force in particular.
Can anyone confirm this?

[jerseygirl]

Good morning. Just checking in. Any major updates?

I plucked this off of Mutter's:



Bush rejects Nth Korea's offer


June 12, 2004 - 5:05PM



US President George W Bush has rejected a passionate offer from North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-Il for direct talks between their countries, press reports in Japan said.

The offer was conveyed to Bush by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who met Kim on May 22, during their talks Tuesday on the sidelines of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in the US state of Georgia, the reports said.

"He (Kim) wanted to dance (with Bush) so much as to get thirsty," Koizumi told the US president in a somewhat cryptic expression, the influential daily Asahi Shimbun reported, quoting a source close to the premier.

Bush replied that Washington would not negotiate with Pyongyang bilaterally but it would seek to solve a 20-month standoff over North Korea's nuclear arms development in an existing six-nation forum in Beijing, the report said.

Another major daily, the Mainichi Shimbun, also reported that Koizumi had used the unusual expression to convey Kim's wish for bilateral dialogue.


The paper said though that it was uncertain if Kim had himself used such "vivid" terms when he met with Koizumi.

The Japanese foreign ministry only said Koizumi had told Bush that Kim had a "strong desire" for bilateral talks, the daily said.

The United States claims that North Korea has been pursuing a clandestine uranium-based nuclear program despite its 1994 pledge to freeze nuclear development. It vows not to reward Pyongyang for a compromise on the standoff.

Koizumi last month held his second summit with Kim in 20 months. The meeting focussed on the abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents in the 1970s, a thorny issue which has stalled talks on the normalisation of relations between the two countries.


www.theage.com.au/article...click=true

[ExSoldier]

I can't confirm as to an immediate situation. Long term, the Iraq situation is causing a definite realignment of the force structure worldwide. Clinton absolutely GUTTED our military (Damn the LIBERALS!) and so to face the new threats, we are moving forces out of Germany and South Korea. That's a better use of our resources anyway. EU spends all it's time pi$$ing on us, let's make 'em use their own funds for self defense. Same for Korea.

For sometime, I know that former SpecOps guys have been recalled from retirement as well as CIA assets. A neighbor of my wife's dad was recalled for this. His wife is hopping mad. The old guy is in his middle 70's and suddenly the CIA is putting him back in "harness?" Don't know what his specialty was, however.