Tag: defence

Poland’s choice to buy from South Korea instead of neighbouring European countries shows that it trusts the Asian country more in terms of factors like cost and production schedule, he ...

SEOUL: “Simple” and “childish” was how Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, described South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol last month for his offer of ...

Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, was designed to help protect South Korea against attacks from North Korea; instead it became the biggest obstacle to relations between ...

The budget request is for funding to mass produce ground-launched cruise missiles - an extended range version of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-designed Type 12 missile already in use - to ...

Without question, the Bill’s symbolic measures make for good domestic politics in the US. After all, China is one of the rare topics of bipartisan agreement in Washington these days. ...

Taiwan recorded incursions by around 970 Chinese warplanes into its air defence zone in 2021, more than double the roughly 380 in 2020. The figure this year has already exceeded ...

China has not commented on the footage, which has received millions of views on Chinese social media with users making fun of it. It has also triggered heated discussion in ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan unveiled a proposed 12.9 per cent year-on-year increase in its defence budget for 2023 to T$415.1 billion (US$13.72 billion) on Thursday (Aug 25) amid tensions with China, which ...

That proposed spending accounts for 14.6 per cent of the government's total spending for next year and is the fourth-largest spending segment, after social welfare and combined spending on education, ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has visited sailors in the island's navy to thank them for their efforts amid days of war games and military drills by China, calling the ...