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The state arms procurement agency has requested a police investigation into an Indonesian engineer's alleged attempt to steal technologies related to a joint fighter jet development project, defense officials said Thursday.
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South Korea now should focus on fostering defense academia and young talents to become a leader in the global defense industry, says Kang Eun-ho, former chief of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration. “In the past, Korea followed a catch-up strategy (in advancing its defense industry), which was a second-place strategy,” said Kang in an interview with The Korea Herald in Seoul on Feb. 5. “F...
The two countries also inked a memorandum of understanding to further strengthen defense cooperation.
Indonesia said its engineers under probe over allegedly stealing technologies related to the KF-21 fighter jet under development will provide their 'full cooperation' in the investigation, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday.
South Korea is mass-producing its own unmanned aerial vehicle, 14 years in development, to boost its reconnaissance capabilities against the North.