S KOREA WILL NOT WANT TO GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD IF AND WHEN JAPAN PLANS TO TAKE BACK THE ISLAND OF DOKDO (LIANCOURT ROCKS) WHICH IS ONLY 117.1 MILES FROM KOREA–SINCE JAPAN LAYS CLAIM TO THIS SAME ISLAND THAT KOREA HAS SETTLED IN CENTURIES PAST–KOREA TO STATION A COMPANY OF MARINES IN THE ULLEUNG ISLAND

Korea will station a company of Marines on Ulleung Island to boost the defense of the easternmost islets of Dokdo, on which Japan has territorial designs, a source said Thursday.
The measure is part of a long-term plan to form a coastal defense linking the islands off North Korea in the West Sea with Jeju in the South and Ulleung in the East Sea.
Dokdo lies about 90 km east of Ulleung.
At the moment a squad of Marines is dispatched to Dokdo by helicopter for twice-yearly defense drills. A base on Ulleung will make it possible to dispatch more combat forces to Dokdo.
There is a company of homeland reserve forces commanded by a Marine major on Ulleung that defends the island and conducts exercises, but no contingent of combat Marines.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/11/06/2015110601203.html


http://en.dokdo.go.kr/pages/s02/page.html?mc=7173

CANADA THE FRIENDLIEST AND CLEANEST COUNTRY IS NOW THE NUMBER 1 PLACE IN THE WORLD TO BE PERSONALLY FREE

Since 2009, Canada has risen five places to the top of the personal freedom sub-index: 94 percent of Canadians think they have the freedom to direct the courses of their own lives.

Here are the top 10 countries for personal freedom:

1. Canada
2. New Zealand
3. Norway
4. Luxembourg
5. Iceland
6. Ireland
7. Sweden
8. Denmark
9. Australia
10. Uruguay

The United States ranked 15th worldwide.

http://news.yahoo.com/canada-ranks-first-in-world-for-personal-freedom-and-social-tolerance-211723934.html

90 KOREAN WAR VETERANS FROM 11 NATIONS TO CONVERGE IN KOREA TO COMMEMORATE THE 1950-1953 WAR AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS NORTH, CHINA, AND USS RUSSIA

Ninety veterans of the Korean War from U.N. allied nations and their families will visit Korea next week, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said Friday.

The war veterans and their families from 11 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Turkey, will arrive here Monday for a six-day visit at the invitation of the ministry.

They will attend a commemorative ceremony to be held Wednesday in honor of and as a tribute to the U.N. soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War.

The Turn Toward Busan International Commemorative Ceremony will be held at the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in the southern port city of Busan. The ceremony calls on people from around the world to offer a one-minute silent tribute to fallen U.N. soldiers by facing toward Busan wherever they are at 11 a.m.

Those invited include Vincent Courtenay, a Canadian Korean War veteran, who in 2007 first inspired commemorative ceremonies to be held worldwide to give silent tribute simultaneously to fallen U.N. soldiers.

The family of British Korean War veteran Robert Steed Holman McCotter will visit with his remains, which will be interred in the U.N. Memorial Cemetery ahead of the commemorative ceremony, according to his will left when he died in the U.K. in 2001.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/11/116_190401.html

OASIS OF THE SEA GETS A MAN OVERBOARD DESPITE ATTEMPTS BY THE CREW TO SAVE HIS SOUL FROM SLAMMING DOWN 7 FT SWELLS IN THE CARRIBEAN–AS A BRAZILLIAN PASSENGER GETS HIS WISH WITH THE FISHES

A MAN has fallen from a cruise ship in the Caribbean despite the frantic efforts by other passengers to save him.

Dramatic video of the man plunging into the water was shot by a passenger. It shows the desperate effort to pull him to safety — and then screams of horror as he slips and falls.

The 35-year-old from Brazil is still missing today as the US Coast Guard combs the area using a long-range aircraft and a helicopter, reported Yahoo.

He was a passenger on the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship, which is operated by Royal Caribbean cruises.

The man can be heard yelling, “Let go of me! You don’t touch me!”

A number of traumatised passengers, who can be heard wailing, watched as he continued talking to someone on board, “Because of you, this happened. ... I’m not going anywhere. ... Let go of me! Get off of me!”

The video shows people trying to pull him in before the man, who can’t hold on any longer, lets go and falls from view into the Atlantic Ocean. “Get the life ring and throw it over,” one woman can be heard calling out.

The incident happened 27km east of Turks and Caicos, reported the Sun Sentinel.

“Our report was that he jumped onto the lifeboat and subsequently fell into the water,” said a USCG representative, “but regardless of how he fell into the water, we’re working right now on just finding him.”

He fell from the seventh deck of the ship.

A passenger recorded the captain’s message to the other on-board about the incident on Periscope.

“It is very tragic, especially for the next-of-kin person on board still. Also [for] a crew that was dealing directly with the person that was holding him, trying desperately to save him and he just slipped out of their hands,” the captain said.

Seven feet swells, rain and poor visibility have hampered search efforts.

A statement from Royal Caribbean confirmed the incident and said the man “intentionally” went over the side of the ship.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/video-shows-horrifying-moment-a-brazilian-man-falls-from-a-cruise-ship/story-fnizu68q-1227599857811