Private Company Manages Daily Bombing of Korean Village

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http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=8656

MAEHYANG-RI, SOUTH KOREA - Six days a week, up to 16 hours a day, the skies above this tiny fishing village, fill up with F-15, F-16, and A-10 fighter jets, that hurl bombs at a small island less than a mile away from the community.

The pilots come from United States military bases across the Pacific - as far north as Japan and Okinawa to Thailand in the south and Guam in the east, to this rural region just 50 miles south of Seoul on the west coast of the country.

This has been the arrangement since August 1951, when US troops took the area from North Korea during the Korean War and then set up the practice bombing range unilaterally without consulting the South Korean government.

But today the Maehyang-ri bombing range isn't run by the US Air Force and it isn't run by the US Army. Five years ago, the bombing range was privatized and its management turned over the multinational weapons contractor Lockheed Martin. Then, in July, the bombing range changed hands. An Alaska-based company called Arctic Slope World Service took over the contract.

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you won't believe what all the Arctic Slope World Service has done in the past. ( " In some respects, its similar to big contractors like Halliburton or Lockheed. When the company won the contact for Maehyang-ri, it already had already managed parts of American military installation across the country from maintaining the Army's AH-64 Apache, UH-60 Black Hawk, and UH-1 Huey helicopters at Godman Army Airfield, Fort Knox, Kentucky, to running the 600 unit housing complex at McConnell Air Force Base near Witchita, Kansas. Arctic Slope even managed Midway Naval Air Station in the Pacific until the military closed the base in 1997.")

you really won't believe who owns it! (eight villages above the Alaskan Arctic Circle)

ASWS fired all the Korean workers and only hired back a few.
they also seize Korean land
and the entire area is a toxic zone
they are anti-union
it goes on and on

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