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Korea, US kick off 2nd round of military cost-sharing talks
South Korea and the United States started their second round of talks Wednesday to renew their cost-sharing agreement for the about 28,500 American troops stationed here.The two-day talks started on South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju earlier in the day, following their first round of meetings held last month on Hawaii. "First of all, I would like to extend my sincere welcome to senior adviser Betts and the US delegation upon your visit to Korea, especially to the beautiful Jeju Island,
April 11, 2018
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Korea confident about advanced radar development
South Korea said Wednesday it's confident about developing its own advanced radar system for envisioned indigenous combat jets.The defense authorities launched the 360-billion-won ($338 million) program in 2016 to acquire an active electronically scanned array radar system.It's part of the ongoing KF-X fighter development project, worth 8.8 trillion won, to replace the Air Force's aging fleet of F-4 and F-5 jets.The state-run Agency for Defense Development is leading the radar initiative. It has
April 11, 2018
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Korea, US wrap up weeklong combined exercise
South Korea and the United States wrapped up a massive combined exercise Sunday after their weeklong maneuvers.The two sides kicked off the Ssangyong, or Twin Dragon, drills last Sunday near Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, as part of the annual Foal Eagle field training between the allies.South Korea said the combined exercise ended earlier in the day as scheduled and the US forces that joined the exercise will return to their bases, for instance in Okinawa, Japan. (Yonhap)Among the US assets
April 8, 2018
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S. Korea's Army to create reserve forces command
South Korea plans to launch an Army command Friday in a bid to facilitate the mobilization of reserve forces for the forces' founding anniversary.The move is part of efforts to make the country's 625,000-strong troops as agile and strong as possible.The number of active duty soldiers will decrease to half a million by 2022 under the Moon Jae-in administration defense reform scheme."(We) should further bolster the combat power of reserve forces to minimize the combat power vacuum from the reducti
April 6, 2018
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S. Korean, US marines cancel 'D-Day' landing drill due to weather
South Korean and US marines have called off a massive combined amphibious landing exercise this week due to adverse weather, the combined command announced Wednesday.They had planned to stage the so-called D-Day landing operation, reminiscent of the Invasion of Normandy, on a beach of the southern coastal city of Pohang on Thursday. (Yonhap)It was canceled "after weather assessments indicated unsafe landing conditions for service members," the Combined Forces Command said in a press statement. "
April 4, 2018
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Korea's Navy to receive new landing ship
Korea's Navy will take over a new 4,500-ton landing ship featuring speedier and larger-load operations on Monday, the state arms agency said.The Defense Acquisition Program Administration plans to hand over the Ilchulbong vessel to the Navy in a ceremony to be held at Hyundai Heavy Industries' shipyard in Ulsan.It will be the Navy's third Cheonwangbong-class landing ship (LST-II) following the Cheonwangbong and Cheonjabong vessels. They are named after mountain peaks in Korea.The 127-meter-long
April 2, 2018
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South Korea in efforts to rescue sailors kidnapped in waters off Ghana
South Korea has deployed an anti-piracy naval vessel to the sea off Ghana, and is cooperating with other nations to rescue three South Korean sailors supposedly kidnapped by pirates, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said late Saturday. The ministry said unidentified pirates appeared to have kidnapped the three Korean sailors, along with one Greek national and one Ghanaian national, on Monday (local time) and used a speed boat to take them away. An official from the ministry told The Korea Herald that t
April 1, 2018
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S. Korean, US troops begin joint field training
A combined field training of South Korean and US troops got under way Sunday as scheduled, defense officials said amid a nascent peace mood on the divided peninsula.More than 11,500 service members, including thousands based outside of Korea, plan to participate in the four-week Foal Eagle training, along with around 300,000 South Korean soldiers. The allies often kick off their largest annual military exercise in late February or early March for a two-month run. This year, however, they waited
April 1, 2018
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S. Korea’s first stealth fighter unveiled
Following its first public debut of F-35A fighter jets, South Korea kick-started its efforts to deploy the fifth-generation stealth fighters amid growing uncertainty over the security landscape ahead of its summit with North Korea. US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin unveiled its first batch of F-35A fighter jets to be delivered to South Korea on Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The event was celebrated by the allies’ senior acquisition and defense officials, including South Korea’s Vice Defe
March 29, 2018
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Pilot error to blame for crash of Black Eagles jet: Air Force
Following a monthslong investigation into the crash of an aircraft participating in an international air show in Singapore in February, the Air Force announced Wednesday the accident was caused by a pilot error during preparation for take-off. According to the Air Force, the pilot from the Black Eagles aerobatic team failed to abide by the emergency procedure when the T-50 Golden Eagle aircraft skidded off the runway at Changi Airport during the 2018 Singapore Airshow on Feb. 6. The Air Force sa
March 28, 2018
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Korea may agree to pay more for US troops: Victor Cha
South Korea may agree to shoulder a larger burden of the cost of stationing US troops on its soil as part of the two nations' deal on trade, a former White House official said Monday.Victor Cha, who served as Asian affairs director on the National Security Council of George W. Bush, raised the possibility shortly after Seoul announced a tentative deal with Washington on amending their free trade agreement and exempting the Asian nation from new US steel tariffs."If there is any tacit issue linka
March 27, 2018
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Navy stages drills to commemorate 2010 Cheonan sinking
South Korea's Navy conducted sea drills in the country's eastern and southern waters Monday on the eighth anniversary of a deadly torpedo attack by North Korea, a defense official said.More than 10 warships were mobilized, along with aircraft, with exercises in the Yellow Sea canceled due to bad weather. (Yonhap)The Navy staged the exercise to mark the anniversary of the Cheonan corvette sinking. It went down near the Northern Limit Line, the de-facto maritime border between the two Koreas, on M
March 26, 2018
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Prime minister vows strong defense against N. Korea despite conciliatory mood
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Friday that South Korea won't let its guard down and will ensure its defense against North Korea despite the recent conciliatory mood with the provocative communist nation.Lee made the remark during a ceremony commemorating the North's 2010 sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan near the western sea border, which left 46 sailors dead, and other battles with the North in and around the Yellow Sea. Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon speaks during a ceremony held on Fri
March 23, 2018
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Debate over garrison decree roils South Korea
Since the Syngman Rhee administration in 1950, the South Korean government has had the authority to issue a decree and mobilize the armed forces in order to maintain public order in the event of disasters and emergencies. But the “garrison decree” has often been criticized as an excuse to suppress democratic protests, such as during the authoritarian administration of the 1970s. The late President Park Chung-hee mobilized troops several times to crack down on anti-government protestors. Now th
March 22, 2018
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S. Korea, US issue different statements on resumption of joint drills
The South Korean military and US Pentagon on Tuesday issued differing statements regarding the duration of their upcoming joint military exercises, raising suspicions of an attempt by Seoul to contain possible fallout from the resumption of the drills. According to the Ministry of National Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the postponed joint military exercises will start on April 1, with the field-training Foal Eagle exercise that is to be halved in length from two months to one followed about
March 20, 2018
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S. Korea, US to start scaled down joint drills on April 1
A postponed South Korea-US joint military exercise will resume April 1, South Korean and the US militaries said Tuesday, with its field-training Foal Eagle to be halved in length from two months to one.South Korea’s Defense Minster Song Young-moo and his US counterpart Jim Mattis decided to resume the annual computer-simulated Key Resolve exercise and field training Foal Eagle exercise, according to Seoul’s Defense Ministry and US-led Combined Forces Command. South Korea`s President Moon Jae-in
March 20, 2018
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Resumption of S. Korea-US joint drills to be announced Tuesday
A timetable for the postponed South Korea-US joint military drills is to be announced Tuesday, the allies’ militaries said Monday, amid speculations that the scope of the annual exercise may be scaled down due to a diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea. According to South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense and US-led Combined Forces Command, the resumption of the computer-simulated Key Resolve and field training Foal Eagle drills will be announced late Tuesday morning. “As far as I know,
March 19, 2018
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S. Korea, US to announce joint military training schedule Tuesday
Following months of strategic reticence, South Korea and the United States will soon reveal the schedule of their combined military drills, defense sources here said Monday."The two sides plan to announce the schedule of the joint training, postponed due to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, on Tuesday," a source said.The timetable and size of the annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercise are a matter of primary concern with a flurry of summit diplomacy on North Korea's nuclear program just aroun
March 19, 2018
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Kim would do 'victory dance' if US troops left Korea: US commander
WASHINGTON -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would do a "victory dance" if the United States pulled its troops from South Korea, a top US military commander said Thursday.Adm. Harry Harris, chief of the US Pacific Command, was offering his assessment of how Kim would respond in the event the US succumbed to the North's longstanding demand to remove its 28,000 troops from the South."I believe he would do a victory dance," Harris told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I think he'd be a happy
March 16, 2018
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Ministry vows to cut mandatory military service period despite public concerns
South Korea's defense ministry said Thursday it remains committed to implementing President Moon Jae-in's election pledge to shorten the mandatory service period of rank-and-file soldiers by three months.The change is part of the liberal Moon administration's "Defense Reform 2.0" campaign aimed at making the country's armed forces smaller but stronger.Under the scheme, the number of South Korean troops will decrease to half a million by 2022 from the current 625,000, which includes 483,000 Army
March 15, 2018