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Former USFK chiefs call for delay of joint drills

Former U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) commanders have thrown their support behind President Moon Jae-in's call to delay annual military exercises between South Korea and the U.S. until after the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-27 16:12

Military urged to get tougher on sex offenders

Korea’s human rights body is calling on the Ministry of National Defense to take harsher punishment against servicemen and servicewomen who sexually assault their junior colleagues. The announcement came Thursday as the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was wrapping up its six-month investigation into sexual violence in the military after one female navy officer committed suicide in May after a superior officer assaulted her twice. “In many cases, we found perpetrators were in a position to evaluate the victims concerning their careers,” the NHRC report said. “To root out sexual violen...

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-21 15:51

Seoul seeks to buy more next-generation fighters

South Korea has embarked on a project to buy the nation's next-generation fighters (F-X), the state-run Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said Thursday. It is widely seen as a move to buy 20 more Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters in addition to 40 jets that Seoul agreed to buy in 2014. On Nov. 7, U.S. President Donald Trump said, after his summit with President Moon Jae-in in Seoul, that South Korea will be ordering “billions of dollars” of U.S. weapons.

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-21 15:41

South Korean guards fire at North Koreans chasing defecting soldier

A group of North Korean soldiers retreated after South Korean guards fired warning shots in the central-western part of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the four-kilometer-wide inter-Korean border, Thursday morning. The North Korean soldiers were likely searching for a soldier who defected to the South at 8:04 a.m. The South Korean guards fired 20 rounds from their K-3 machine g...

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-21 12:24

North Korean soldier crosses border to defect to South

KF-16 pilot named this year's Top Gun

Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) 38th Fighter Group pilot Major Kim Sang-won was named as the 2017 Top Gun, the annual award for the Air Force's top ace. According to the ROKAF, it held an award ceremony last week for this year's air combat contest at the Air Force Club in Singil-dong, southwestern Seoul.

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-20 15:56

South Korea will have more female troops

Women may take up around 10 percent of all military personnel by 2022 as part of the government’s defense reform measures, the Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday. According to the reform drive, the ministry plans to select 2,450 female commissioned and noncommissioned officers a year by 2022, almost double the current number of 1,100, by gradually increasing the number annually.

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-20 15:22

Ex-veterans affairs minister faces investigation

The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said Tuesday that it made a formal request for the prosecution to investigate former Minister Park Sung-choon over alleged illegal or inappropriate activities committed under his leadership. The decision came after the ministry carried out an internal audit into the several controversial programs conducted while Park was in office...

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-19 16:53

'China conducted large-scale drill in preparation for sudden change in NK'

China has conducted a large-scale drill, designed to train troops to occupy North Korea’s nuclear facilities, in preparation for sudden changes in the North such as a conflict or regime collapse, according to media reports, Monday. According to the Hankook Ilbo, sister paper of The Korea Times, some 100,000 Chinese troops participated in the drill of a simulated occupation of a building that is the same size and shape as the North’s Yongbyon nuclear complex. The newspaper said intelligence officials of South Korea and the United States learned of such an exercise through pictures taken by re...

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-18 16:23

5 Chinese warplanes enter Korea's air defense zone

Five Chinese military aircraft including two bombers entered the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) without prior notification Monday, causing South Korea to scramble interceptors. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said its Air Force’s Master Control and Reporting Center detected two H-6 bombers, two J-11 fighter jets and one TU-154 reconnaissance plane entered the KADIZ from southwest of Ieodo at 10:10 a.m. The JCS said Seoul countered by sending fighter jets including F-15Ks to the area, noting that the Chinese aircraft also flew into the Japanese Air Defense Identification Zone ...

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-18 16:17

Stinger missiles fired in drill

The Army successfully launched two Stinger air-to-air guided missiles from its AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters in their first live-fire exercise, Wednesday. Four Apache choppers belonging to the Army's Aviation Operations Command took part in the drill held on a firing range at Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province. Stinger missiles are capable of striking airborne d...

Defense Affairs | 2017-12-13 16:57

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