South Korea and the U.S. are set to hold talks on defense technology security this week, officials said Thursday.The third annual Defense Technology Security Consultative Meeting (DTSCM) will be held on Hawaii from Thursday to Saturday, according to officials at the South‘s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA).Kwon Oh-bong, the vice commissioner of the DAPA, and James Hursch, the director of the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA) under the Defense Department, will rep

The state auditing agency and the defense ministry have uncovered major illegal profiteering schemes in military logistics and are investigating for further irregularities, a government source said Wednesday.The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) and the ministry launched a joint investigation into

South Korea on Tuesday denied a media report that some U.S. marines stationed in Japan may be redeployed to the South on a rotational basis, as Washington and Tokyo consider transferring thousands of American forces from Okinawa to other regions. An unspecified number of U.S. marines on Okinawa is likely to be transferred to South Korea under a plan whereby the U.S. redeploys some marines from the Japanese island to other nations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported earlier in the day, citing a S

The Korea Military Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point will introduce a professor-exchange program, official here said Tuesday.According to the Korean Army, the Korea Military Academy chief Lt. Gen. Park Jong-sun and West Point superintendent U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David H. Huntoon agreed to the program in January, and the two institutions plan to sign a memorandum of understanding on the issue following approval from the U.S. Department of Defense. Park and Huntoon agreed to the pro

 The U.S. and Korea should consider a bilateral defense industry agreement styled after the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, former commander of the U.S. Forces Korea said.In an article published in the U.S. political and defense publication Defense News co-written with Monitor National Security associate partner John Prior, retired U.S. Army Gen. Walter Sharp said that a military FTA would facilitate cooperation between the two nations’ defense industries. Sharp served as the USFK commander for

An Army unit recently ordered its officers with smartphones to delete applications considered pro-North Korea and critical of the South Korean government, the second such crackdown revealed in the past week, officials said Monday.According to officials, the commander of the Sixth Army Corps handed down the order to a subordinate unit on Jan. 17, with a list of four pro-North Korean apps and six apps critical of the Lee Myung-bak administration.The belated disclosure comes on the heels of a simil

A U.S. army aircraft made an emergency landing on Friday at the U.S. military base of Camp Humphreys south of Seoul, but no injuries were reported, officials said.A U.S. Army RC-7 reconnaissance plane executed an emergency landing while on duty at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, some 70 kilometers sou

   South Korea's presidential office on Thursday denied a lawmaker's claim that President Lee Myung-bak promised to purchase U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets when he held summit talks with President Barack Obama in October.   Rep. Song Young-sun made the claim in a radio interview Wed

The Ministry of National Defense handed over the remains of a U.S. soldier killed during the 1950-53 Korean War to the U.S. on Thursday.The remains, found near Gaemi Hill in South Chungcheong Province in June last year, were identified through a joint Korea-U.S. investigation. The ministry said that its Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification and the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command have been working together after initial investigations showed that the remains were likely to have belong

Senior defense officials from South Korea, the U.S. and Japan consider the current North Korean regime “stable” under its new leader Kim Jong-un, sources said Tuesday.Lim Kwan-bin, South Korea’s deputy defense minister; Peter Lavoy, the U.S. acting assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs; and Masanori Nishi, the head of defense policy at Japan’s defense ministry, began their two-day meeting on the South Korean island of Jeju on Monday, sources said. Their conference

The defense ministry on Tuesday issued guidelines on the use of social media by soldiers, with an emphasis on protecting the military’s confidential information.The ministry said in a statement the increase in smartphone ownership and the subsequent rise in use of social networking services prompted the publication of the guidelines.“Our guidelines are designed to help troops in their use of SNS so that they won’t violate military security policies and adversely affect military discipline,” the