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Cheong Wa Dae looking into military officials playing golf
The presidential office is looking into reports that dozens of military officials played golf over the weekend despite heightened tensions with North Korea, presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung said Monday.“Cheong Wa Dae is paying particular attention to the issue of discipline slackening in public service,” Yoon said. “The office of the senior civil affairs secretary has immediately launched an inquiry to determine what has exactly happened regarding the reports about military golf.”Local new
March 11, 2013
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N.K. cuts off military hotline with South
South Korea and the U.S. kick off their annual 10-day Key Resolve drills on Monday -- the day Pyongyang said it would scrap the armistice agreement and inter-Korean nonaggression pacts.The allied militaries have remained on high alert as Pyongyang could launch provocations near sea and land borders during their regular drills including the one-month Foal Eagle exercise to run until April 30. On Sunday, the North, which denounced the drills as a “rehearsal for a nuclear war of incursion,” warned
March 11, 2013
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Key Resolve drills get under way
South Korea and the U.S. launched their annual Key Resolve drills on Monday as North Korea cut out a telephone hotline at the inter-Korean border village in its latest provocative act.Pyongyang had earlier threatened to scrap the armistice agreement and inter-Korean agreements on nonaggression and denuclearization denouncing the 10-day allied exercise as a “rehearsal for a nuclear war of incursion.” For the first time, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff led the command post exercise in preparation f
March 11, 2013
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S. Korea, U.S. begin drills amid threat
South Korea and the U.S. kick off their annual 10-day Key Resolve drills on Monday ― the day Pyongyang said it would scrap the armistice agreement and inter-Korean nonaggression pacts.The allied militaries have remained on high alert for North Korean provocations near sea and land borders during their regular drills including the one-month Foal Eagle exercise to run until April 30. On Sunday, the North, which denounced the drills as a “rehearsal for a nuclear war of incursion,” warned its troops
March 10, 2013
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Defense minister nominee threatens psywar against N. Korea
North Korea will face psychological warfare by South Korea if the communist country continues with provocations, President Park Geun-hye's defense minister nominee said Thursday.In written answers presented to the National Assembly ahead of his confirmation hearing, Kim Byung-kwan said the South Korean military will "sternly punish the North by employing all means available," including psychological warfare.Kim will undergo a parliamentary confirmation hearing for Park's defense minister on Frid
March 7, 2013
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Hyundai Heavy Industries to build new submarines
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 said Thursday.The Defense Acquisition and Procurement Agency (DAPA) said it has chosen Hyundai Heavy Industries to build an upgraded version of the 1,200-ton Chang Bogo submarine, in partnership with Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.The new version of the diesel-electric attack submarine will weigh
March 7, 2013
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Anti-submarine torpedoes fail in additional test-firing
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 source said Wednesday.After the torpedo failed to hit its target in the initial test in July of last year, the Navy fired off eight more in a period of five months since last October. Five of them successfully passed the test, while three went missing.The state-funded Agency for Defense Development cr
March 6, 2013
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S. Korean military warns of strong retaliation for North's provocation
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 over an annual drill by Seoul and Washington set to start next week. The warning came one day after the North's military threatened to scrap the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, citing tensions over South Korean-U.S. joint military exercises and warned a "precise" strike at any time. A t
March 6, 2013
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Around 70% of N.K. missiles target S. Korea
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 threats.“Since the late 1990s, North Korea has produced some 100 missiles of various types each year, and I think the North should have more production capacity by now,” he told reporters on condition of anonymity.Seoul presumes that the North has deployed some 1,000 missiles including intermediate-r
March 4, 2013
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Civilian workers at USFK may face sequester layoffs
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, have taken effect, military officials said Monday. Gen. James Thurman, the USFK commander, sent a letter on Feb. 27 to about 10,000 civilian personnel to notify them that they may be placed on periods of unpaid leave if the automatic spending cuts, the so-called “sequester,” take effect. His letter ca
March 4, 2013
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Integrating Information Warfare into U.S.-ROK Defense Strategy
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 Peninsula. Its three mutually reinforcing strategic pillars — defensive deterrence, the U.S.-ROK (Republic of Korea) alliance and forward active defense — have defined the baseline of South Korea’s national security, the structure of its forces and its operational conduct.However, in the last decade, Sout
March 3, 2013
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Park faces daunting security tasks
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 challenges to the country’s maritime interests.Atop the security agenda for the Park Geun-hye administration is strengthening military capabilities to deal with Pyongyang’s increasing nuclear and missile threats as well as other weapons of mass destruction, experts said. Despite the military threats
Feb. 28, 2013
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New Pentagon chief vows to strengthen alliance
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 security."I've always believed that America's role in the world is one that -- and we've had variations of this throughout history -- has been one that should engage the world," Hagel said, addressing Pentagon officials at its building on the outskirts of Washington.The former Republican senator's c
Feb. 28, 2013
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Specter of U.S. sequestration spills looms over South Korea defense
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 necessary steps to ensure the impact of budget cuts, or “sequestration,” will not send any wrong signals to a provocative North Korea.The U.S. Department of Defense said Tuesday there could be “certain impacts” as part of what it calls the “devastating consequences” of the spending cut, which will take eff
Feb. 27, 2013
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Problems with F-35 program stir concern over Seoul’s fighter plans
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. Defense Department said a small amount of smoke in the aircraft’s cockpit was found during the testing process. Based on its initial assessment, the Pentagon said the problem appeared to be isolated and software-related.The F-35 jets were also grounded for the second time this year recently because of a
Feb. 26, 2013
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U.S. military halts test flights for F-35 fighter
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 overruns and technical glitches.The move was described as a "precautionary measure" after a crack was discovered on a turbine blade in one F-35 engine at Edwards Air Force Base in California."It is too early to know the fleet-wide impact of this finding, however as a precautionary measure, all F-35 fligh
Feb. 23, 2013
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Seoul struggles with N.K. deterrence
Skepticism is growing over the South Korean military’s ongoing efforts to counter North Korea’s escalated nuclear threat amid increasing calls for a major revamp of its ineffective deterrence strategies and weapons systems.After the North’s third atomic test on Tuesday, Seoul’s Defense Ministry vowed to accelerate the processes of building the “Kill Chain,” a preemptive strike system, and deploying strategic ballistic missiles, which can cover the whole area of North Korea. On Thursday, it also
Feb. 14, 2013
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Seoul to deploy missiles covering whole of N.K.
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 North Korean location, officials said Wednesday. The Defense Ministry said it would unveil the new long-range missiles within the week. “We have developed and deployed a cruise missile system with world-class precision and destructive force that can strike any location in North Korea,” Defense Ministry
Feb. 13, 2013
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Seoul maintains high alert for possible further provocations
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 to carry out further provocations using the UN Security Council’s strong measures as an excuse,” an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was quoted as saying by a local news agency. He added that it is unclear when the alert triggered by North Korea’s actions would be eased. Such specu
Feb. 13, 2013
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Military considers unmanned attack copters against N.K.
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 military official said Monday.Seoul has been mulling ways to beef up deterrence and combat capability to cope with rising tension following Pyongyang’s warning of a third nuclear test in response to the U.N. sanctions for its December rocket launch. Last week, South Korea’s military chief warned of a
Feb. 11, 2013