SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) unit carried out surgical strike drills involving its special commandos earlier this week at an American military base just south of Seoul, its public affairs office said Friday, following North Korea’s missile provocations. The USFK’s Special Operations Command Korea (SOCKOR) revealed on its Facebook [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An international defense exhibition opened in a city just northwest of Seoul on Wednesday to showcase cutting-edge military hardware and technologies, including drones and robots, organizers said. The biennial Defense Expo Korea, or DX Korea 2022, began its five-day run at the KINTEX exhibition center in Goyang. It is [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean and U.S. Marine Corps have developed a five-year plan to strengthen combined amphibious landing exercises, a U.S. military unit here said Wednesday, amid the allies’ move to sharpen deterrence against evolving North Korean threats. The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Korea (MARFOR-K) revealed the formulation of the allies’ [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), South Korea’s sole aircraft maker, signed a US$3 billion contract with Poland on Friday to follow up on an earlier basic deal to export 48 FA-50 fighter jets, Seoul’s arms procurement agency said. KAI inked the “executive” contract with Warsaw’s Armament Agency as a follow-up [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea approved a 400 billion-won (US$295 million) plan Friday to upgrade the Army’s AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters, the state arms procurement agency said, amid Seoul’s stepped-up push to counter North Korea’s evolving military threats. The Defense Project Promotion Committee endorsed the basic plan to buy tactical data [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States wrapped up a major combined military exercise Thursday, Seoul officials said, in a conclusion highlighting their pursuit of stronger deterrence against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats. The allies completed the Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise, which kicked off Aug. 22, despite North [...]
POCHEON, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged a large-scale combined live-fire exercise near the inter-Korean border Wednesday, in a vivid display of the allies’ military might amid North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats. A centerpiece of the Combined Joint Fires Coordination Exercise (CJFCX) took place in Rodriguez Live Fire [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., South Korea’s sole tank manufacturer, said Monday it has signed a 499 billion won (US$372 million) K2 tank deal in Poland. Hyundai Rotem signed the deal with Poland’s state defense procurement agency to build 180 K2 tanks for the Polish military by December 2027, the company [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has been elected the chair of a key decision-making body of an international treaty regulating the global conventional arms trade for a one-year term, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Sunday. The election by unanimous support from member countries of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) came at the closing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy on Sunday wrapped up an annual operation to collect underwater waste near a northwestern border island as part of efforts to help protect the maritime ecosystem and ensure safer fishing activities, the armed service said. Using a 3,500-ton towing ship, the Navy gathered 13 tons of maritime [...]