SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea approved a 5.75 trillion-won (US$4.3 billion) plan Monday to begin mass production of a homegrown light armed helicopter (LAH) in the coming months, the state arms procurement agency said. The Defense Project Promotion Committee endorsed the LAH production plan to run through 2031 as part of efforts [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) will host a component command of the U.S. Space Force (USSF), likely the second regional space command to be established by the United States outside of its mainland, amid growing missile threats from North Korea, sources here said Saturday. The U.S. Department of Defense [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bomber joined a South Korea-U.S. joint air drill Saturday, one day after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the East Sea, military officials said. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the supersonic bomber made a sortie over South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States conducted a joint air exercise Friday focusing on enhancing the capabilities of striking North Korea’s missile-related facilities, hours after it fired another long-range ballistic missile, according to Seoul’s military. The South Korean Air Force’s F-35A stealth fighter jets held the exercise striking North [...]
PYEONGTAEK/SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States held a ceremony Tuesday to commemorate the completion of a yearslong project to relocate their Combined Forces Command (CFC) headquarters from Seoul to a key U.S. military base south of the capital. The relocation of the CFC — the allies’ bedrock warfighting command [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry has selected a successful bidder in its project to acquire and install electromagnetic wave detectors around the THAAD missile defense base in a southeastern county, officials said Sunday. The ministry is to receive the delivery of eight electromagnetic wave detectors by April 28, 2023, under [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The second prototype of South Korea’s homegrown fighter jet, the KF-21 Boramae, made its successful maiden test flight Thursday, the country’s arms agency said. It took off from the Air Force’s 3rd Flying Training Wing in Sacheon, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, at 9:49 a.m. and landed without [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run defense research agency plans to construct a new testing facility for arms development as the country seeks to strengthen the “three-axis” deterrence system to counter North Korea’s evolving threats, an informed source said Wednesday. The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) is expected to build the facility [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea announced a plan Tuesday to confer a posthumous state medal on Richard Whitcomb, a late former U.S. Army general, in recognition of his philanthropic efforts in supporting victims of the 1950-53 Korean War, the veterans affairs ministry said. The decision to award the Mugunghwa Medal, the highest [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bombers staged joint drills with South Korean F-35A stealth fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the last day of the allies’ Vigilant Storm exercise, according to Seoul’s defense authorities. It marked the first time that the long-range supersonic bomber has been deployed [...]