- November 14th, 2026
South Korea’s navy has proposed developing a 270-metre-long drone carrier to replace its stalled F-35B-centred CVX aircraft carrier programme, signalling a major shift in Seoul’s naval modernisation strategy towards unmanned aviation, maritime surveillance and networked command operations. The revised concept...
South Korea has accelerated its efforts to establish an independent air-combat weapons industry after Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Hyundai Rotem agreed to cooperate on developing and integrating an indigenous long-range air-to-air missile for the KF-21 Boramae fighter jet. The...
South Korea’s emergence as a major global arms exporter is challenging a traditional measure of military-industrial strength: the number of weapons a country manufactures and sells abroad. Increasingly, defence experts argue that a country's industrial power should also be measured...
South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae fighter jet has flown in formation with American military aircraft for the first time, marking an important milestone for Seoul’s indigenous combat aviation programme and demonstrating growing operational interoperability between the South Korean and US air...
South Korea said on Monday (Aug 24) that the United States had cancelled a large joint amphibious landing exercise scheduled for next month due to constraints on force availability caused by the war with Iran. The biennial Ssangyong drills involve...
South Korea has launched its first trial voyage of a container ship through the Arctic, seeking to determine whether the increasingly ice-free Northern Sea Route can provide a commercially viable alternative to traditional shipping lanes linking Asia and Europe amid...
Japan’s US Security Dependence Faces New Test as Trump Shake-Up Raises Questions Over Tokyo’s Plan B
On Wednesday night, August 19, protesters gathered along roads near the residence of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, calling on her government to preserve Japan’s pacifist tradition and uphold the country’s constitutional commitment to peace. Their appeals came after a...
The United States and South Korea have begun their annual joint military exercises under an unexpected new political backdrop after US President Donald Trump ordered a sharp reduction in the scale of the drills and revived talk of another meeting...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday (Aug 19) that Beijing was "actively considering" a summit between the leaders of South Korea and China at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen in November, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said. He...
US President Donald Trump said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had responded to his recent overtures, raising the prospect of renewed engagement between Washington and Pyongyang as tensions over military exercises on the Korean Peninsula come under...
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