SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has been conducting a U.S.-led multinational air exercise, along with four other nations, in Guam since earlier this month to enhance joint operability, the Air Force said Friday. The annual Cope North exercise has been taking place at the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam since Monday, [...]
POHANG, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. and South Korean Marine Corps have commenced joint training exercises aimed at enhancing their combined operational capabilities. According to the Marine Corps, since February 1, the 1st Marine Division has been conducting joint training with the U.S. Marines at a training site in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Indonesia said its engineers under probe over allegedly stealing technologies related to the KF-21 fighter jet under development will provide their “full cooperation” in the investigation, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday. The engineers dispatched to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) are under suspicion of storing data on KF-21 development [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will mass-produce a 155-millimeter extended-range artillery shell this year after successfully completing its development in a yearslong project, the state arms procurement agency said Tuesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) held a meeting with ammunition maker Poongsan at the company’s research center in Daejeon, 139 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Group, a South Korean energy-to-defense conglomerate, said Sunday its affiliates were set to showcase key weapons technologies at a global defense fair in Saudi Arabia this week. Hanwha, which has defense industry affiliates, including Hanwha Aerospace and Hanwha Ocean, under its wing, said its arms technologies will be [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States called on North Korea Friday to refrain from further “provocative” and “destabilizing” actions and come back to dialogue, after Pyongyang conducted another round of cruise missile launches. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that Pyongyang fired the missiles into the Yellow Sea on Friday morning (Korea [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesian engineers have been under investigation over allegedly stealing technologies related to the KF-21 fighter jet under development, the state-run procurement agency said Friday. The engineers dispatched to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) are under suspicion of storing data on KF-21 development on a USB, according to the Defense Acquisition [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The government on Thursday unveiled a National Cybersecurity Strategy calling for strengthening the country’s offensive cyber defense operations and building cooperation mechanisms with the international community while keeping a focus on North Korea’s cyberthreats. The 35-page strategy was drawn up jointly by the presidential Office of National Security, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed in waters off South Korea’s west coast on Wednesday and the pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft, the U.S. Air Force said. The jet assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing in Kunsan Air Base, about 180 kilometers south of Seoul, experienced [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric, persistent weapons tests and pursuit of sturdier military ties with Russia are raising questions over whether it is time for the United States to recalibrate its policy and take a more creative approach. After taking office in early 2021, the Joe Biden administration unveiled a [...]