SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan will kick off a combined ballistic missile defense exercise in waters off Hawaii this week, informed sources said Sunday, amid their stepped-up security coordination against North Korea’s evolving military threats. The biennial Pacific Dragon exercise is scheduled to take place from Monday [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Navy has decided to allow female sailors to serve on submarines for the first time, starting in 2024, its officials said Friday, a move to broaden their military roles amid prospects of troop shortages caused by the country’s low birthrate. The Navy made the decision during Thursday’s [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co., South Korea’s sole tank manufacturer, said Thursday it has signed an initial deal to export 1,000 units of the K2 tank to Poland. Hyundai Rotem is in talks with the Polish government to finalize the details of the deal, including the production site and the time [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), South Korea’s sole aircraft maker, has signed a basic US$3 billion deal with Poland to export 48 FA-50 light attack fighters, its officials said Thursday. The largest FA-50 export deal was part of the “framework contracts” that the Polish government inked the previous day to [...]
WARSAW/SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Poland on Wednesday signed basic deals with South Korea to acquire Korean-made FA-50 light attack fighters, K2 battle tanks and K9 self-propelled howitzers. Under the “framework contracts,” Poland is to procure 48 FA-50 jets, 980 K2 battle tanks and 648 K9 howitzers, the Polish government said, describing the deals [...]
ICHEON/YANGPYEONG, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Army’s Apache attack helicopters soared through the skies and descended sharply in a tactical move to avoid potential attacks and secure the safety of its members in a formation tasked with capturing a high-value facility controlled by a hypothetical enemy. The spectacle unfolded at two Army [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering sending to Poland another military attache in charge of arms industry cooperation, an informed source said Monday, following a media report about Warsaw’s push to purchase Korean-made weapons. In an interview with Polish media last week, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said his country plans [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The office of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday the government approved a plan for the creation of a new military unit to bolster its defenses against chemical, nuclear and biological incidents. The approval was made at a regular interagency anti-terrorism meeting presided over by Han earlier in the [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government strongly condemned Japan on Friday for laying repeated claim to the easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defense white paper. “(The government) strongly protests against Japan’s repetition of its sovereignty claim over Dokdo, clearly an integral part of the Korean territory in terms of [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States are expected to revive a comprehensive combined military exercise abolished in 2018, Seoul officials said Thursday, amid the allies’ efforts to reinforce deterrence against North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. The exercise set for Aug. 22-Sept. 1 is likely to combine the [...]