SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s veterans ministry has chosen a unified Belgium-Luxembourg battalion as next month’s Korean War hero for its contribution to key defense operations during the 1950-53 conflict, officials said Friday. The battalion consisted of 700 Belgian troops and 48 Luxembourg soldiers, who were mobilized to fight under the U.N. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea approved major projects Wednesday to upgrade combat capabilities of its F-15K fighters and import aerial refueling tankers, the state arms procurement agency said, in a move to counter evolving North Korean threats. The Defense Project Promotion Committee passed a 3.46 trillion won (US$2.73 billion) project to strengthen [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has independently developed new antenna technology to improve the performance of high-speed aerial telecommunications networks, a state-run defense research agency said Tuesday. The multi-beam active phased array antenna technology developed by the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) can ensure simultaneous communication with four unmanned aircraft with a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean drones’ infiltrations into South Korea’s airspace this week have demonstrated a new layer of complexity in its national security posture that has focused largely on the recalcitrant neighbor’s missile and nuclear threats rather than such small, hard-to-intercept flying objects, analysts said Tuesday. The South’s defense authorities were [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted regular military drills earlier this week to enhance the defense of its easternmost islets of Dokdo, an informed source said Friday, following Japan’s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings in a revised security document. Personnel of the Navy and Coast Guard staged the biannual drills [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States conducted combined air drills, involving U.S. B-52 strategic bombers and F-22 stealth fighters, on Tuesday, in an effort to strengthen the credibility of America’s “extended deterrence,” Seoul’s defense ministry said. The drills took place in the South’s air defense identification zone southwest of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has successfully completed a 180 billion-won (US$138 million) project to develop an air-to-ground guided missile to be fitted on a homegrown light armed helicopter (LAH), the state arms procurement agency said Monday. The missile, named Cheongeom, passed a combat suitability assessment on Dec. 12, capping more than [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Navy SEALs of South Korea and the United States recently concluded a two-week bilateral exercise designed to strengthen their interoperability, officials said Sunday. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said a West-Coast based SEAL team and the South Korean Naval Special Warfare Flotilla concluded their bilateral session on Dec. 9 On [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state arms procurement agency signed a 30 billion-won (US$23 million) contract with a local firm Monday to develop an advanced counter-artillery radar system by 2026, officials said. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) inked the deal with LIG Nex1 for the project aimed at replacing aging radars [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will embark on a 190 billion-won (US$146 million) project Monday to locally develop a long-range air-to-ground guided missile by 2028, the state arms procurement agency said. The missile, which will be the country’s first domestically developed air-launched one, is to be fitted onto the homegrown KF-21 fighter [...]