South Korea to Consider Joining Japanese Led Naval Fleet Review
It will definitely be a sign of improving relations if South Korea takes the Japanese up on this offer of joining their fleet review. Considering that the Yoon administration will probably get hammered domestically for joining this fleet review, hopefully the Japanese offer something equal in value in return for ROK participation:
South Korea’s Defense Ministry is considering an invitation from Japan to stage a naval fleet review together, but old enmities and unresolved disputes stand in the way, according to South Korea’s defense minister.
South Korea is determined to build “future-oriented” ties with Japan and their military relationship “should be improved” if mutual cooperation, along with that of the United States, can boost security in the region, South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup told Yonhap News on Wednesday.
“Japan-[South Korea] defense cooperation is under the influence of the overall relations between Japan and South Korea,” he said. “The conditions to improve Japan-[South Korea] ties are currently being set.”
But cooperation between the two countries have been hampered by long-standing territorial and historical differences, Lee said.
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So what the hell is this, ‘fleet review’?
There’s nothing of value when their navy has to use cell phones to call for help after their supposedly high-tech sub collides with a fishing ship, and their AEGIS destroyer gets crushed like a tin can after colliding with a smaller freighter. Tin pot military, severely overestimated.
More Beijing-bot agitprop from the troll gallery, I see.
Cancerboy, did I say anything not true?
The South Korean navy is now rethinking the plan for the light naval aircraft carrier in favor of the bigger-sized carrier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD-mJiSFHQg&ab_channel=YTN
The Navy canceled the plan for purchasing the problematic Lockheed Martin’s F-35B, and will instead look towards the homegrown KF-21s to be the jet fighters for the new carrier. Since the KF-21s can’t take off vertically, the Navy is looking to get bigger carriers for these jets.
South Korea will also soon replace the GE jet engines with the new home-grown engine which has been in development for 10 years, and now becoming closer to ready. The goal is to replace all key US-made parts in the KF-21 so that the US doesn’t try to block the exports of these fighter jets. There’s no reason for South Korea not to become the number 2 in the world for exporting military hardware by eating into the US arms market, at a time when a lot of the countries who bought US weapons are not satisfied with the cost to maintain and the level of aftersale service.
More Beijing-bot agitprop from the troll gallery, I see.
More proof that setnaffa, despite his claims, is a poorly educated redneck with very low brainpower.
A simple search on the Internet would have resulted in the articles below
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223392/Inferno-Battle-extinguish-blaze-Japanese-naval-destroyer-hits-container-ship.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56000531
Which shows that setnaffa is ignorant of the goings on of the world and clearly shows his ignorance by lashing out with his “China-bot” racial slurs.