SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold a major air show in a southern city next week to showcase an array of its high-end military aircraft, including the homegrown KF-21 fighter under development, Seoul officials said Thursday. The four-day Sacheon Airshow is set to begin at an air base in Sacheon, 301 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean military plans to gradually replace water bottles with new models earlier than scheduled, source said Sunday. The defense ministry plans to earmark a budget of roughly 3 billion won (US$2.20 million) next year to distribute 102,000 new water bottles. The budget represents a growth of 67 percent compared [...]
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. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has submitted an opinion expressing the unconstitutionality of the military criminal code that punishes homosexuality in the military, officials said Thursday. The military criminal act, revised in 1962, prohibits same-sex relationships among military personnel, who are mostly male. The article states a maximum jail [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s arms procurement agency on Wednesday signed deals with two local firms to develop a counterterrorism robot and a reconnaissance drone, its officials said, as the country seeks to harness new technologies for its military buildup. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said that it inked a 4.6 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military is exploring ways to prevent accidents in Han River estuary areas caused by land mines floated from North Korea, or the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) plans to detect the areas of concern with high potential to be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea appears to be turning to a tried-and-true deterrence playbook marked by its arms buildup, a threat of “unsparing” punishment and scaled-up military drills as it faces evolving North Korean security challenges, analysts said Wednesday. That playbook revolves around three Cs: military capabilities, communication to a recalcitrant North [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military is joining hands with IT representatives to train technology specialists. The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Science and ICT announced Tuesday that they will start a joint artificial intelligence (AI) and software training program for military personnel, aimed at developing 1,000 military specialists for the [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military has developed new technology for the automatic generation of navigation software for guided weapons and unmanned aircraft on the basis of the concept of module assembly. The state-run Agency for Defense Development (ADD) said Tuesday it had independently secured navigation software development technology designed to automatically create [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged a combined exercise in international waters off Okinawa this week, the military said Saturday, in yet another move highlighting the allies’ joint defense posture. The three-day exercise, which ended Saturday, was aimed at bolstering the allies’ mission capabilities against North Korea’s provocations, [...]