Defense chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman receive AstraZeneca vaccine shots
Posted : 2021-04-16 14:14
Updated : 2021-04-16 14:14
Defense Minister Suh Wook receives an AstraZeneca vaccine jab at the Armed Forces Capital Hospital in Seongnam, Friday. Courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense
Defense Minister Suh Wook and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Gen. Won In-choul received their first doses of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine Friday, the defense ministry said.
Suh and Won were given the vaccine shots at the Armed Forces Capital Hospital in Seongnam, south of Seoul, in consideration of their planned overseas trips, according to the ministry.
Won plans to visit Hawaii later this month for trilateral talks with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts ― Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. Koji Yamazaki ― on the occasion of the upcoming change-of-command ceremony of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
S.Korea to Install AI-Based Security Systems to Curb Border Defection Our Bureau 709
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The South Korean military will install an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based security system at the eastern coastal border, weeks after a North Korean man crossed over to the country.
The man in his 20s passed through a drainage conduit beneath the barbed wire fences set up along the shore in mid-February. He was on the military surveillance cameras 10 times but soldiers failed to notice eight of them even after alarm bells rang. He was caught after hours of manhunt.
Plans to install the new AI systems was revealed to Defense Minister Suh Wook during a meeting on defense reform. It will be expanded to the whole 22nd Infantry Division in Goseong by 2022, Yonhap News Agency reported today.
Posted : 2021-04-09 16:34
Updated : 2021-04-09 16:46
President Moon Jae-in speaks during the unveiling ceremony of the KF-21 Boramae fighter jet at Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, Friday. Yonhap
By Nam Hyun-woo
Korea has rolled out a prototype of the KF-21 Boramae fighter jet, formerly known as the KF-X, marking a success in the project to locally develop a next-generation combat aircraft with indigenous technology.
President Moon Jae-in visited Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, Friday, for the unveiling ceremony of the first KF-21 Boramae. Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and more than 230 government officials from both countries also attended the ceremony. Indonesia is a partner in the project.
South Korea, Indonesia pledge closer industrial ties
09 April 2021
by Jon Grevatt
South Korea and Indonesia have pledged to expand defence industrial co-operation as part of closer strategic ties.
The Ministry of National Defense (MND) said in a press release on 8 April that the commitment was outlined by South Korea’s Defence Minister Suh Wook and his visiting Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto.
The MND said the two countries’ strong industrial ties were “symbolised” by their collaborative work on the development of the Korean Fighter eXperimental (KF-X) fighter aircraft, which was unveiled by prime contractor Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) on 9 April.
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