SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has finalized a landmark defense export deal with Poland for a second batch of K2 Black Panther tanks, marking the largest single defense export contract in the country’s history and the first major arms deal under President Lee Jae-myung’s administration. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — When American B-2 bombers streaked across the sky and obliterated three key nuclear sites in Iran last month, the world watched with a mix of awe and unease. But for one veteran U.S. expert on Korean affairs, the shockwaves from the strike may be felt in a far more unexpected [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has informed the U.S.-led U.N. Command (UNC) of its plans to build fortifications inside the border between the two Koreas, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday, marking the first notification of its kind in more than six months. The North notified the multinational command tasked with monitoring inter-Korean [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Telegram, once known as a haven for anonymity and untraceable messaging, is now actively cooperating with South Korean law enforcement, signaling a significant turnaround in the platform’s stance on privacy and criminal investigations. According to the National Police Agency, Telegram has responded to over 95% of investigative data requests [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The military has restored all of the 11 guard posts inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas that had been dismantled under a 2018 inter-Korean military tension reduction pact, an opposition lawmaker said Friday. The 19.6 billion-won (US$14.4 million) project to restore the guard posts concluded last [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean soldiers prefer empathetic superiors, while military officers favor leaders with strong organizational skills, according to a new personality-based survey released by Kookbang Ilbo (The Defense Daily) on Thursday. The survey, conducted between May 28 and June 13 via the military’s internal intranet system, gathered responses from 3,445 [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire, hosted a symposium Thursday, exploring policy recommendations for the new Lee Jae Myung administration amid rising global security uncertainties driven by the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry and growing protectionism. The annual Korean Peninsula Symposium was held at Hotel Shilla in central Seoul, co-hosted [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The state arms procurement agency has successfully conducted the first flight of a new helicopter prototype aimed at conducting mine countermeasure operations, officials said Tuesday, in a move expected to bolster the country’s maritime security capabilities. The flight took place earlier this month, following a ground test in March [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The commander of Poland’s Air Force, General Ireneusz Nowak, is visiting South Korea this week to deepen defense cooperation and evaluate the country’s next-generation KF-21 Boramae supersonic fighter jet. General Nowak met with South Korean Air Force Chief of Staff Lee Young-soo on Tuesday at the Air Force headquarters [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan held combined air drills Wednesday in an effort to strengthen their trilateral security cooperation against North Korean threats, the South’s Air Force said. It marked the first joint air exercise among the three countries since President Lee Jae Myung took office earlier [...]