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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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US will take steps for three-way engagement on nuclear deterrence with S. Korea, Japan: Campbell
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Defense minister to attend regional summit to discuss NK nuclear, regional issues
South Korea's defense chief will leave for Singapore early next month to attend a regional security meeting where he will exchange views on North Korea's nuclear provocation and other mutual issues, Seoul's officials said Wednesday.Defense Minister Han Min-koo will join the Asia Security Summit to be held from June 3-5 in Singapore, according to the defense ministry. The summit, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, is an annual security meeting organized by the International Institute of Strat
May 25, 2016
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Korea to buy weaponry worth 3.5 tln won this year
South Korea's defense procurement agency said Wednesday it plans to import arms worth about 3.5 trillion won ($3 billion) this year in a bid to enhance its defense capabilities.South Korea plans to spend about 9 percent of this year's defense budget of 38.8 trillion won to buy weaponry from overseas, according to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration.It said the government plans to spend an average of 3.5 billion won per contract to import weapons from foreign suppliers.Amid North Korea
May 25, 2016
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Air Force website experiencing problems due to hacking
South Korea’s Air Force website has been experiencing problems for 13 days due to an unidentified hacking attack, local officials said Wednesday.An official said the Air Force suspended its website operations from the early morning of May 12 when malicious code was found in it.The Air Force is currently operating a temporary website to provide public services such as information on conscription and other notices that affect the public.The armed forces branch and the military’s Cyber Warfare Comm
May 25, 2016
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U.S. defense budget bill calls for support for Air Force's seismic
A U.S. Senate defense budget bill for next year calls for setting aside US$7.5 million to strengthen the Air Force's seismic technologies program to better detect nuclear tests, congressional records showed Tuesday.The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 authorizes the fund for the Air Force Research Laboratory's seismic technologies program, saying the program is a key component in efforts to identify and monitor nuclear activity."The committee notes with concern the continu
May 25, 2016
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Korea seeks military ties with African countries
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it will seek military cooperation with African countries during President Park Geun-hye’s upcoming visit to the continent.Boosting relations with Uganda, in particular, is expected to further pressure North Korea, which has had long-standing ties with the African country and is currently under U.N.-led economic sanctions as punitive actions for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.In a press briefing, ministry spokesman Moon Sang-kyun said that V
May 24, 2016
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Korea eyes military cooperation with African countries
South Korea plans to seek ways to increase military cooperation with Africa as President Park Geun-hye embarks on her trip to three African countries including Uganda this week, a government official said Tuesday.Seoul's move will help weaken North Korea's military network with Africa and make it possible to strengthen cooperation over the international sanctions regime imposed on the communist country, according to the official.The chief executive will embark on her African tour and trip to Fra
May 24, 2016
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USFK’s Korean workers protest for job security
In light of the accelerating relocation of the U.S. Forces Korea’s Seoul base, its Korean workers staged a large-scale protest Saturday, demanding that military officials guarantee their job security.Members of the USFK Korean Employees Union gathered in front of the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan, central Seoul, and demanded the USFK create a response team to ensure the Korean workers are not laid off or switched to nonguaranteed contracts in light of the move.USFK Korean Employees Union hold
May 22, 2016
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U.S. soldier caught after deserting military unit ahead of trial
South Korean police said Thursday they have taken an American soldier into custody five days after he deserted his front-line base ahead of a trial on charges of possessing child pornography.The 25-year-old serviceman was caught in western Seoul at around at 5:30 p.m. by police who chased after him near the area based on his credit card payment information, officials said. The soldier, whose identity was withheld, was serving at U.S. Army's 2nd Infantry Division at Camp Casey in Dongducheon, som
May 19, 2016
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USFK top brass begins to relocate
The Seoul-based U.S. Eighth Army Command has started its move down to Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi Province, the South Korean Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The U.S. Forces Korea is slated to move its forces from Seoul and northern Gyeonggi Province to Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of the capital. “Most of the (Seoul-based) troops, including the USFK command, will be moved by 2017,” the ministry said. (Yonhap)“Relocation of battalion or company-sized troops -- such as 94th Mili
May 19, 2016
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S. Korea to pick foreign jet engine by June to equip indigenous combat jets
South Korea will select a foreign jet engine maker to power the country's first indigenously-developed combat aircraft by next month, the defense procurement agency said Wednesday.European jet engine giant Eurojet Turbo GmbH is competing against U.S. rival General Electric (GE) for the South Korean deal to procure engines for its high-profile indigenous fighter jet project, known as the Korean Fighter Experimental, or KF-X.The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) is currently review
May 18, 2016
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Civil rights body orders Air Force to end discriminatory scholarship policy
Korea's civil rights body ordered the Air Force to revise its discriminatory policy that excludes night college students from getting scholarships, adding that the existing system poses major problems for equality.The country's Air Force currently runs a scholarship program that cherry picks college students through their third year and provides them with tuition and flight education courses so they can become pilots after graduating.The program, however, is only open to those enrolled in daytim
May 18, 2016
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Camouflage netting over submarine shows N. Korea's pursuit of SLBM program: 38 North
Recent satellite imagery shows camouflage netting over the deck of North Korea's ballistic missile submarine in an indication that the communist nation is forging ahead with its SLBM development, a U.S. website monitoring the North said Tuesday.The May 8 imagery of the Sinpo South Shipyard shows netting has been suspended over the Gorae-class submarine in an sign that the North is continuing to "actively pursue development of both a ballistic missile submarine and submarine-launched ballistic mi
May 18, 2016
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U.S. Pacific commander calls for greater trilateral military cooperation with S. Korea, Japan
The U.S. Pacific commander called Tuesday for greater trilateral military cooperation with South Korea and Japan as the three countries plan to hold their first joint missile-tracking exercise to better defend against North Korea.Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. made the remark during a speech at a security seminar in Washington, saying the North is posing a "real threat" with its pursuit of nuclear weapons and delivery missiles in addition to "hundreds of thousands of rockets within range of Seoul."He
May 18, 2016
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S. Korea to abolish alternative military service by 2022
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it plans to gradually abolish the military’s special rule that allows the conscripted to provide alternate services in lieu of mandatory military service from 2020 to 2022.The plans for the phaseout are due to the country’s dwindling population.“The military speculates that there will be an annual shortage of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers (by 2023), even considering that the military will be downsized to around 520,000 by then,” said a ministry official.As
May 17, 2016
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Navy assembles first homegrown submarine
South Korea’s military on Tuesday held a ceremony to formally start the assembly of its first domestically developed submarine, slated to be deployed in the 2020s.The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said the keel laying ceremony -- which officially recognizes the start of a ship’s construction -- for batch 1 of Jangbogo-III submarine was held by its builder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. The steel cutting ceremony for the vessel was held in November 2014.Daewoo had als
May 17, 2016
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Korea to abolish military service exemption to cope with dwindling population
South Korea will phase out the military's special rule that exempts natural science and engineering students from the compulsory military service in a move that takes into account the country's dwindling population, the defense ministry said Tuesday.All able-bodied South Korean men are required to finish a two-year military service as the country has been technically at war with North Korea after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.Annually about 28,000 students with
May 17, 2016
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Korean special forces join regional anti-piracy exercise
Some 330 South Korean special forces troops took part in a regional anti-piracy exercise in the South China Sea region with 17 other countries, the defense ministry said Tuesday.The maritime security exercise, which ran from May 1-12 in the waters between Singapore and Brunei, brought together special army and navy forces from the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting Plus, it said.ADMM-Plus is a gathering of 10 ASEAN nations plus eight dialogue partners including South Korea, Japan, China, Russia an
May 17, 2016
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Korean youths honor U.S. veterans of Korean War
HONORING VETERANS -- IYF Overseas Volunteer students and former U.S. Marines who took part in the 1950-1953 Korean War pose for a photograph at a church in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province on Thursday. The U.S. veterans of the Korean War visited Korea to attend events commemorating the Korean War.
May 17, 2016
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Korea, Japan, U.S. to hold missile defense drill
South Korea said Monday it will hold a joint missile warning exercise with the U.S. and Japan prior to this year’s biennial international maritime warfare exercise in June.The military drill will be held near the U.S. island state of Hawaii around June 28, before the Rim of the Pacific Exercise takes place from June 30 to Aug. 8.“South Korea, U.S. and Japan have held joint search and rescue drills numerous times in the past, but this marks the first time we hold a missile warning exercise,” a hi
May 16, 2016
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Korean Air Force squadron achieves 150,000 mishap-free flight hours
A South Korean squadron achieved 150,000 mishap-free flight hours over a period of 40 years and seven months, the country's Air Force said Sunday. The Air Force said that its 237 Tactical Control Squadron of the 8th Fighter Wing has achieved 150,000 flight hours without any accident after its KA-1 light attack aircraft landed safely at an Air Force base on Friday. This is the longest accident-free record for a single squadron, the Air Force said. "The record is meaningful because the squadron ha
May 15, 2016