Former President Moon Responds to Criticism About Readiness Against North Korean Drones
Former President Moon is not happy about the criticism his administration has received from the current President:
Former President Moon Jae-in has said his administration established a system to counter North Korean drone infiltrations, according to officials of the main opposition Democratic Party.
Moon made the remarks when DP leaders visited his home in the southeastern city of Yangsan on Monday, apparently in response to criticism from President Yoon Suk Yeol that the North’s recent drone infiltration revealed how Seoul’s military readiness and exercises have been “greatly lacking” over the years.
“Former President Moon said the government had introduced radars and prepared substantially with regard to countering drones,” a DP official who met Moon on Monday told Yonhap News Agency.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but I have seen no one criticizing the detection capability. Clearly the ROK military did a good job detecting the drones which Moon’s administration should be given credit for acquiring. However, the inability to shoot them down to include crashing one of their own aircraft is what the criticism of the ROK military has been about.
Moon’s got the COVID beard now! Excellent.
As for shooting the drones down… they should’ve asked Farmer Joe to come by with his shotgun.
Moon, to frontline troops:
“Yell out what’s killing you.”
Yoon to military brass:
“That’s not good enough.”
We’ll see if anything gets done.
Under Pres. Moon the ROK went through the largest expansion of its defense budget, more than his conservative predecessors, so it may not be a good idea for Pres. Yoon to try to place blame on his predecessors.
A Hawkish Dove? President Moon Jae-in and South Korea’s Military Buildup – War on the Rocks
There’s also this matter, which is a translation of a SBS news report.
[Actually] President Yoon “The National Assembly cuts the budget for drones” – Teller Report
The SBS news story
https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1007026920
Visual Politics has a video out for South Korea’s role in the rearmament of the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hu4ccSx10M&t=1s&ab_channel=VisualPolitikEN
Fourth largest arms sales in the world, but I cannot see any reason why it can’t be number two by next year, when Russia doesn’t even have enough weapons for itself.
All these high tech weapons were started by the Kim Dae Jung’s Democratic Party hated here in this forum, who believed in defense self-sufficiency, with the goal of less reliance on the United States.
Korea has nothing except brain power.
If Korea squanders that, everyone’s lifestyle returns to the third world.
How does Korea thrive?
Cars, microchips, LCDs, etc…
…except all those items start getting demands to make them elsewhere… in the local markets, at the mercy of tax stuctures, where labor is cheaper, etc.
So, Korea is screwed.
But nobody asks you to make your weapons systems elsewhere.
If Korea can be the weapons supplier to the world, Korea’s bright future will continue.
War is a business… and the way the world is headed, business is looking gooooood.
I have a lot more faith in Korea than most other countries… which set noisy goals and pass fancy laws and increase irritating restrictions, but seem to have no plan.
Korea always seems to have a plan.
Bonus: Politicians can be credited or blamed but the reality is a lot of these trans-administration goals are managed by Korea’s version of the deep state… which appears to be working FOR Korea.
I wonder what Korea-hater downvoted me?
I bet it was one of the chinamen who lurk around here sabotaging Korea’s success by promoting destructive policy and discouraging sensible thinking.
Good luck, Korea, this is an uphill battle… but i have faith in Korean success.
@TOK
Are you saying, that President Yoon, who is the darling of GI Korea and the Setnaffarians because they feel he cares more about defense of Korea compared to Moon, forgot to include major weapons programs in the annual government budget?
And had his ass saved by the opposition liberal party?
How can this be? Has the world gone mad? Shouldn’t it be the other way round?
Oh wait, he’s a brainless buffoon.
That explains everything and why the Setnaffarians support him.
It was under Moon that the KF-21 fighter jet program which started with the KDJ era began to bear fruit, at a time when the Conservatives were pushing it to be scrapped after the US government vetoed Lockheed Martin’s tech transfer of key technologies. The Conservatives were hammering Moon’s administration saying they were wasting money on a project that was now supposedly dead since the US won’t transfer the tech. The right-wing backed by the US government and the US defense industries insisted that Korea just buy from the US. If Korea had done that, it still would have been waiting on the failing F-35s to be delivered by 2026 when the homemade KF-21 is scheduled to be fully operational. The Moon administration ignored all their nonsense, and they doubled down on Research and Development with the goal of self-sufficiency in defending South Korea.
And look what it leads to, just watch the documentary I posted – South Korea is now playing a major role in reshaping the world that even the NATO countries have failed to do.
South Korea is more NATO, and is more G7, than some of those useless G7/NATO countries that have done nothing compared to their economic size and international reputations. And now Yoon is taking all the credit that he doesn’t deserve.