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Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, was selected to build nine improved versions of Chang Bogo class submarines for the South Korean Navy, the state arms procurement agency sai...
Updated : 2013.03.07 19:55
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The South Korean Navy has additionally test-fired indigenous anti-submarine torpedoes, but found they weren’t suited for combat assignments after a success rate of only about 60 percent, a military s...
Updated : 2013.03.06 21:02
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South Korea's military said Wednesday that it will sternly punish North Korea and its leadership if the North moves forward with provocations, responding to the communist country's warning of attacks...
Updated : 2013.03.06 14:35
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Around 70 percent of the some 1,000 North Korean missiles are designed to strike South Korean targets, a missile expert said Monday, underscoring the communist state’s increasing asymmetric military ...
Updated : 2013.03.04 20:04
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Most civilian workers at the United States Forces Korea may face a furlough in the coming months as the U.S. government’s automatic spending cuts, including a drastic reduction in defense spending, h...
Updated : 2013.03.04 20:02
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For 60 years, South Korea’s defense strategy has remained relatively constant — maintaining deterrence and robust defense posture in order to prevent another major outbreak of war on the Korean Pen...
Updated : 2013.03.03 20:28
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The new Seoul government faces a host of daunting security tasks ranging from deterring increasingly emboldened North Korea, to retaking wartime operational control from the U.S. in 2015, to possible...
Updated : 2013.02.28 20:50
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Chuck Hagel started his work Wednesday as U.S. secretary of defense, pledging to accelerate Washington's renewed focus on the Asia-Pacific region and promote partnerships with other nations on global...
Updated : 2013.02.28 09:51
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Possible automatic, across-the-board spending cuts by the U.S. government are feared to take the toll on the allied defense posture on the Korea Peninsula. Experts said South Korea should ready nece...
Updated : 2013.02.27 20:43
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A series of defects found in Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighters pose a hurdle to its plans to sell the costly next-generation fighter jets to U.S. allies, including South Korea. This week, the U.S. Def...
Updated : 2013.02.26 20:50
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WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US military suspended all test flights Friday for the new F-35 fighter jet over potential engine problems, officials said, the latest setback for a program dogged by cost over...
Updated : 2013.02.23 12:12
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The South Korean military (left photo) demonstrates the performance of ship-to-surface and submarine-to-surface cruise missiles newly deployed on a 4,400-ton KDX-II destroyer and a 1,800-ton submarin...
Updated : 2013.02.14 20:55
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South Korea is reinforcing its defense against North Korea including executing a new warfare plan against its weapons of mass destruction and deploying new cruise missiles capable of striking any Nor...
Updated : 2013.02.13 20:53
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South Korean authorities maintained high alert on Wednesday over concerns of possible further provocations from Pyongyang including additional nuclear and missile tests. “North Korea appears likely ...
Updated : 2013.02.13 20:43
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The South Korean military is pushing to develop unmanned attack helicopters capable of hitting North Korea’s front-line bases as a way to counter growing threats from the communist country, a senior ...
Updated : 2013.02.11 20:40
