The South Korean K1A1 main battle tank. Rotem (part of the Hyundai group) has developed the K1 series of vehicles, which includes the K1A1 120mm main battle tank, the K1105 mm main battle tank, K1 ARV armoured recovery vehicle, and the K1 AVLB armoured vehicle launch bridge. The vehicl...
The Korean defence industry started their trade at the beginning of 1970s with basic rifles and mortars has since then has grown to international standard with the development of indigenous hardware such as KAI Surion helicopter, K-9 SPH, K-2 main battle tank and Hyunmoo MLRS.Kelvin Fong...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s presidential office confirmed that the ongoing machine gun bullets, battle tank shell, and reactive armor exports deal to Poland will continue as planned amid controversy after President Yoon Suk Yeol signaled his intentions to send ...
According to the website for actress Yu-jin Jang, she provided the voice of Sarah Jane Smith on the KBS series; however, since the stories that aired on the Korean channel featured Jo Grant and not Sarah Jane the website either has the wrong character assigned to the actress, or Yu-jin...
officials and think-tank influencers who had thought Seoul and Washington were getting along famously. Americans were just as shocked as Koreans when Yoon declared martial law on Dec. 3, as well as when the assembly voted down the martial law decree and then impeached President Yoon by four...
000 North Korean soldiers were in Russia near Ukraine’s border and preparing to join Russia’s fight against Ukraine in the coming days. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged allies to stop just “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops dep...
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Furthermore, the export bid for Hyundai Rotem’s K2 Black Panther main battle tank has long been delayed by problems with a locally built transmission system. Following the first batch of 100 K2s equipped with the German MTU 883 diesel engine and RENK transmission system, the second batch of ...
Unfortunately the tankies aren’t the only ones “in the tank.” Remember that North Korean Studies as an academic field didn’t branch out organically from Korean Studies; it sprang straight out of the FPE, which funded, groomed and promoted our first “academic ward boss.” Not for nothing...
SEOUL--South Korea will deploy laser weapons to shoot down North Korean drones this year, becoming the world’s first country to deploy and operate such weapons in the military, the country’s arms procurement agency said on Thursday.