Min Chul Gu reports on international arms exports, military trade, and defense policy developments in South Korea. His coverage bridges both domestic and global dimensions of South Korea’s growing role in the international defense market.
The U.S. Marines stationed on Okinawa, Japan, can now sink enemy warships from land and shoot down drones from the back of a truck, after the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment formally received both the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship...
All six truck-mounted launchers belonging to the U.S. Army's only THAAD battery in South Korea have returned to their home base in Seongju County, ending a three-month deployment to Osan Air Base that sparked months of speculation...
South Chungcheong Province and the city of Nonsan have secured selection as the site of South Korea's new AI defense robotics innovation cluster, winning a national competition that will channel approximately $32 million in total public investment...
The United Arab Emirates has dispatched multiple C-17 military transport aircraft to South Korea this week to airlift a new Cheongung-II air defense battery and dozens of interceptor missiles back to the Gulf, bypassing sea routes rendered...
South Korea's Defense Ministry has announced plans to dissolve its Defense Counterintelligence Command, the powerful military intelligence agency that played a central role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed attempt to impose martial law in December...
South Korea just cracked one of the most tightly guarded engineering secrets in global defense, successfully developing a domestic laser oscillator for its Cheongwang laser weapon system, a component so strategically sensitive that only the United States,...
A South Korean-developed remote-controlled weapon station capable of networking three or more units into a single coordinated fire system represents a significant step forward for the country's homegrown defense industry, according to KFN Plus.
The system, known as...
South Korea finalized a $352 million deal on Friday to acquire American SM-6 shipborne missile interceptors for its Aegis destroyer fleet, with the weapons scheduled to reach operational service by 2034, the country's Defense Acquisition Program Administration...
