I got an email from a reader informing me that a U.S. soldier here in Korea may have been attacked recently. Here is the MP blotter report (which can apparently be seen in PDF format here, although for some odd reason, my computer isn’t accessing it):
MP Blotter
The following entries were excerpted from the past several weeks military police blotters. These entries may be incomplete and do not determine the guilt or innocence of any person.
A Korean National Police investigation revealed that two unknown Korean men approached a U.S. Soldier off post. One of the men grabbed the Soldier, who pushed away in self defense. The unknown man brandished a knife, cut him on the right arm and fled. The Soldier returned to his barracks and was transported to the emergency room where he was treated with 10 stitches and released. An investigation continues by KNP.
I hadn’t noticed any reports on this incident in the local press, and a quick search over at Yahoo! Korea’s News failed to turn up anything (that’s not to say it couldn’t be in there somewhere). Anyway, if anyone has any additional information on the incident, comments (preferred) or emails would be most appreciated.
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No problems accessing the PDF from here in the US. Maybe try the main page at http://ima.korea.army.mil/MorningCalmWeekly.htm ?
I emailed you the pdf
That type of incident can change the course of politics in Korea or have absolutely no effect at all and just fade away as a minor incident reported in an overseas US miitary base paper.