SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States plan to incorporate “live, virtual and constructive” (LVC) training elements in this year’s springtime combined military exercise for the first time in five years, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Friday, as part of efforts to bolster readiness against evolving North Korean threats. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to develop a microsatellite system by 2030 under a 1.42 trillion-won (US$1.13 billion) project aimed at bolstering capabilities to monitor the Korean Peninsula and nearby waters, the arms procurement agency said Thursday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) outlined the inter-agency plan in a meeting with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An Army boot camp has decided to implement a total ban on smoking after it ran a trial program allowing trainees to smoke for two months. The Korea Army Training Center in the central city of Nonsan, 213 kilometers south of Seoul, decided to halt the trial program and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to stage nationwide civil air defense drills in May for the first time in six years, its military said Wednesday, in a move to reinforce public safety amid evolving North Korean nuclear and missile threats. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the plan and other [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to conduct its first formation flight of stealth drones around 2025, Korean Air Co. said Wednesday, as the aircraft development project gained traction following North Korea’s drone infiltrations late last year. The country’s flag carrier unveiled the plan during a forum on combat systems incorporating both [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Navy has started a process to select its first female submarine sailors, officials said Tuesday, in a move to widen their roles amid concerns about possible troop shortages caused by the country’s low birthrate. The armed service announced a staffing policy change last year to allow female [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States on Friday staged combined air drills, involving U.S. F-22 and F-35B stealth fighters, in a show of America’s “invariable will and capability” to keep its security commitment to the Asian ally, the South Korean Air Force said. The allies conducted the drills over [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite freezing temperatures, shirtless Marines slogged through annual winter drills on an eastern mountainous training site earlier this month, testing their physical limits and cementing their camaraderie to ensure combat readiness, according to the military Monday. Some 160 members of the Marine Corps reconnaissance unit engaged in the regular [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Braving near-zero temperatures, a group of elite naval forces threw themselves into frigid waters during their annual cold-weather training in a southern town on Wednesday, highlighting their mission to protect citizens “wherever you need us to be.” Some 100 members of the Sea Salvage and Rescue Unit (SSU) in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Military and police personnel resumed a search Wednesday for a presumed civilian drone thought to have crashed after flying near a U.S. THAAD missile defense unit in a southern county the previous day, officials said. The authorities are conducting the search in areas close to the base in Seongju, [...]