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Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, “…if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will fight without danger in battles. If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose. If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.” Everyday, we devote tremendous amount of resource and effort to understand both ourselves and those around us. Open source analysis is one of the methods we use to achieve this goal. As we conduct open source analysis, we often come across information that may be deemed sensitive, especially to US Forces Korea (USFK), or ROK-US Combined Forces Command (CFC); some of this information may even be of intelligence value to a well-trained hostile. This article examines precisely these challenges today’s major South Korean printed and internet media outlets pose on USFK and CFC.