Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Eyes On. And today we're taking a bit of a departure

from current affairs in the, in the Middle East, and we're turning to Korea. And we're very,

very excited to have as a guest, Lieutenant General June, formerly of the Republic of Korea military.

But General Tune has... formerly of the Republic of Korea military.

But General Tune has a very interesting background.

Dee will be interested to know that he spent four and a half years,

almost five years in New York as a kid before attending high school,

hence his perfect English.

Awesome.

And then after joining the military, Richie McQuire,

after joining the military as a newly fledged second lieutenant,

won one of South Korea's most prestigious awards for bravery in 1983, which is, you know, as all of you know, is outside what we think of as combat, you know, the history of combat

and on the Korean Peninsula. It's very interesting incident. We're going to ask the general to talk about that later in the episode

and occurred in Rangoon during a North Korean attack.

And then Lieutenant General, Trune went on to have a distinguished career after that.

I know that's a cliche to say, but she really did.

He was part of the Rock,

U.S. Combined Forces Command. He served with the Korean Special Warfare Command, has commanded at every level to include operational commands in both Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, he was involved in the South Korean hostage crisis

in 2007. If we have time, we'll certainly talk about that. He headed up the, I'm going to use the term

rock for Republic of Korea. He headed up the Rock Special Warfare Command,

which is, of course, closely affiliated with our own Socom.

And has a U.S. bronze star medal, the first Korean to receive that honor since the Korean War.

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