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Seoul to get more powerful, longer-range ballistic missiles

Oct 7, 2012

Seoul to get more powerful, longer-range ballistic missiles Seoul and Washington have agreed on revising a bilateral guideline to allow South Korea to develop more powerful ballistic missiles with a range of up to 800 km, up from the previous 300 km, Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday. The revision is expected to strengthen deterrence against North Korea as the maximum range, from South Korea’s central ...
N. Korean soldier defects after killing two superiors

Oct 6, 2012

A North Korean soldier on Saturday crossed the military demarcation line to defect to South Korea after shooting dead two of his superiors, officials at Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The soldier crossed the border at around 12:06 p.m. and expressed his intention for defection to a nearby guard post just south of the heavily fortified border. He is the first to defect across the MDL since t...
U.S. chemical battalion to be redeployed to S. Korea

Oct 6, 2012

(Yonhap) -- The United States plans to redeploy a chemical unit to South Korea to strengthen the combined deterrence against North Korea, nine years after its departure from the Asian ally, an American military official said Saturday. The 23rd Chemical Battalion withdrew from South Korea in 2004 as part of an agreement calling for South Korea to take over 10 major defense missions from the Unite...
Seoul to announce missile pact revision as early as Sunday

Oct 6, 2012

Seoul reportedly plans to announce its agreement with Washington on revising a bilateral ballistic missile pact as early as Sunday. The revision is to allow South Korea to develop ballistic missiles with a range of up to 800 km, up from the previous 300 km, so as to better deal with missile threats from North Korea, reports say. The weight of the payload is to remain at the current 500 kg. “(Se...
U.S. military to bring in precision-guided 'Excalibur' shells

Oct 4, 2012

The U.S. military in South Korea plans to bring in precision-guided "Excalibur" shells capable of striking artillery batteries in North Korea by the end of the year, a military source said Thursday. The U.S. 2nd Infantry Division and South Korea's Agency for Defense Development successfully conducted a test-firing of the Excalibur shell in May, the source said. The U.S. forces also plan to addit...
Navy searches East Sea following report of suspicious object

Oct 2, 2012

(Yonhap News) The Navy scoured waters off South Korea‘s east coast following a citizen’s report of an object that appeared to be a submarine, but the search turned up nothing unusual, officials said. A 39-year-old tourist reported to authorities he saw a strange object emerging and then disappearing in waters some 500 meters away from the Gyeongpodae beach in Gangneung, about 240 kilometers eas...
Tough negotiations ahead in copter project

Sept 27, 2012

Korea is likely to face tough price negotiations for its planned purchase of advanced attack helicopters, with costs currently appearing almost double the budget allocated for the project. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration plans to select the provider for 36 advanced military copters by late November. Boeing’s AH-64D Apache Longbow, Bell’s AH-1Z Cobra and Turkish Aerospace Industri...
Air Force insiders foresaw F-22 woes

Sept 27, 2012

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan (AP) -- Years before F-22 pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit, before one struggled to breathe as he tried to pull out of a fatal crash, before two more went on television to say the plane was so unsafe they refused to fly it, a small circle of U.S. Air Force experts knew something was wrong with the prized stealth fighter jet. Coughing among pilots and fears that co...
U.S. gov't informs Congress of possible sale of attack copters to Korea

Sept 27, 2012

The United States government has formally notified Congress of a plan to seek the sale of 36 advanced attack helicopters to South Korea. A deal under the Foreign Military Sales program, if sealed, would be worth up to US$3.6 billion. In two separate notifications to Congress, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency at the Pentagon provided details of proposed sales of Boeing's AH-64D Apache Lon...
Six out of 10 crimes involving U.S. servicemen not indicted: report

Sept 26, 2012

U.S. military police and Korean police officers are haggling at a commercial district near the U.S. military headquarter in Korea. (Yonhap News) More than 60 percent of crimes involving U.S. soldiers in South Korea were not sent to courts for trial last year, a government report showed Wednesday, raising concerns that judicial authorities are too lenient on such crimes. Charges were not pressed...
Defense budget up 5.1%

Sept 25, 2012

The government on Tuesday called for a 5.1 percent increase in its defense budget for next year to improve defense and the welfare of its soldiers. The Ministry of National Defense has drawn up a spending plan worth 34.6 trillion won for 2013, up from 32.9 trillion won this year. It plans to allocate 24.1 trillion to the operations and maintenance of its strategic military bases, which includes...
Korea to extend troop deployment in UAE, Somalia

Sept 25, 2012

The Korean government on Tuesday endorsed a motion to extend its troop deployment in Somalia and the United Arab Emirates for another year until the end of 2013. The Cabinet meanwhile approved a separate bill, calling for the withdrawal of most soldiers in Afghanistan this year except for a 70-strong unit to protect aid workers and embassy staff. The proposals are subject to parliamentary appro...
Pentagon: S. Korea has many options to help U.S. missile defense

Sept 25, 2012

A senior Pentagon official said Monday that South Korea has "a lot of ways" to help the U.S. missile defense system in Northeast Asia. "Yes, there are a lot of ways one can contribute," Kathleen Hicks, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy, said at a forum. "We do have dialogue with the (South) Koreans about how to contribute to missile defense." She was responding to Yonhap Ne...
S. Korean Navy fires warning shots against N. Korean fishing boats

Sept 21, 2012

South Korea's Navy fired warning shots against North Korean boats operating south of the western sea border, military officials said, after raising the alert status in response to a number of ships violating the demarcation line over the past week. The North Korean boats retreated to north of the border upon the warning shots, officials said. The latest move comes as a growing number of North K...
New missile targets N.K. underground artillery bases

Sept 18, 2012

South Korea has developed a short-range ballistic missile aimed at destroying underground artillery bases in North Korea, a lawmaker of the parliamentary defense committee said Tuesday. The Joint Chiefs of Staff briefed committee members in a closed-door meeting Monday that the military has succeeded in developing the guided missile with a range of 100 kilometers and successfully conducted test-...

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