South Korea's Navy launched a new fast patrol boat to help counter North Korea's hovercraft force along its maritime demarcation line, the military said Thursday. The new 210-ton patrol boat killer medium, rocket, named Chamsuri-211, will gradually replace the existing 20-year-old Chamsuri patrol boats in service, the Navy said. A spokesman said the new boats will greatly bolster Seoul's ability to defend the tension-prone western maritime sea border with North Korea.(Yonhap)The launching event

U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice clearly explained to Chinese officials that the THAAD missile defense system the U.S. plans to deploy in South Korea won't hurt China's security interests, and both sides achieved "a certain amount of clarity on that," a senior official said.The official, speaking during a background briefing in Beijing, said that Chinese officials did raise their concerns about the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system during Rice's trip to Beijing that included me

South Korea and the United States will take steps to expand cooperation in defense technology exchanges and the conventional arms trade, the defense ministry said Wednesday. In the first ever Defense Technology Strategy & Cooperation Group meeting, Vice Defense Minister Hwang In-moo met his U.S. counterpart David Shear, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy, to discuss ways to promote defense technology cooperation between the two countries, the Ministry of National Defense said

U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. commitment to South Korea's security will never waver and the country will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Asian ally in defense of peace and prosperity.Obama made the remark in a message issued in honor of Korean War veterans to mark the upcoming 63rd anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended three-year fighting in the Korean War. The message came as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump increasingly questions the value of alliances

South Korea and the United States will not share with Japan the information they obtain from the radar of an advanced anti-missile system that will be set up by late 2017, a government source said Monday.Their remarks come amid speculations that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to be deployed in South Korea is part of a wider move to integrate the South into the broader missile defense system operated by the U.S. and Japan. "Under the trilateral information-sharing agreement with t

A former floor leader of the ruling Saenuri Party said Monday that South Korea should also develop nuclear weapons if Pyongyang's provocation continues, adding the country's security is being threatened as U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump openly spoke about the withdrawal of troops from the Korean Peninsula."As Trump is openly calling for the pull out of U.S. troops from South Korea, the country's security is like a candlelight facing a storm," Rep. Won Yoo-chul claimed, adding

The U.S. Forces Korea carried out a training exercise to transport Patriot missiles from the U.S. military’s Japan base, officials confirmed Friday.The emergency deployment readiness exercise, the first of its kind, is to validate the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade’s ability to “integrate external ballistic missile defense assets into Korean theater of operation” -- an area where armed conflict takes place – via the sea. U.S. missile defense assets based in the Far East is to be integrated i