SEOUL, Feb.12 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. aerospace firm Boeing Co. stressed Wednesday the importance of mixing manned and unmanned assets for optimal warfare capabilities, as South Korea is apparently reconsidering a plan to buy Apache attack helicopters over cost and efficiency issues. After completing the deployment of 36 AH-64E helicopters in 2017, the South Korean [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill to allow the U.S. Navy to build naval vessels in a trusted ally’s shipyard in order to modernize and expedite construction and procurement processes for U.S. maritime forces, according to one of the lawmakers. On Wednesday last week, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Tuesday denounced the recent arrival of a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea, accusing Washington of ignoring Pyongyang’s security concerns and warning that it is ready to use any means to defend its national security. North Korea’s defense ministry made the remarks a day after the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Privacy watchdogs and government agencies are raising alarms about DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence platform, amid reports of extensive data collection practices. However, tech enthusiasts and small businesses are increasingly turning to the platform’s open-source models as an alternative. According to DeepSeek’s privacy policy released on February 9, the platform [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has issued a warning regarding the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) model DeepSeek, citing significant security vulnerabilities, including the unrestricted sharing of personal data with advertisers and inconsistencies in responses to sensitive questions based on language settings. In a statement released on February [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) - The Navy held a ceremony on Monday to mark the establishment of a new fleet command aimed at better responding to North Korea’s military threats at sea, officials said. On Saturday, the Navy officially launched the Republic of Korea Navy Task Fleet Command, calling it a “core unit of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy has launched a new fleet command that will operate multiple destroyers, including those equipped with Aegis combat systems, in efforts to better respond to North Korea’s military threats at sea, officials said Sunday. “The Republic of Korea Navy Task Fleet Command, a core unit of the maritime [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s K9 self-propelled howitzer, already a global bestseller, is positioned to expand its market reach even further, commanding approximately half of the world’s self-propelled artillery export market. Industry sources and international defense organizations report that while exact statistics vary due to the confidential nature of defense contracts, the K9′s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy’s new MH-60R Seahawk helicopters will begin to arrive in South Korea next month, officials said Thursday, as part of efforts to better counter threats posed by North Korean submarines. In 2020, defense authorities approved a 960 billion-won (US$667.6 million) project to purchase 12 Seahawks from U.S. defense [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Donald Trump will pursue the “complete denuclearization of North Korea,” a White House official said Tuesday, amid questions over whether Trump’s recent reference to the North as a “nuclear power” signaled any policy shift. National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes made the remarks shortly after the North’s [...]