Seoul To Buy Six P-8As And Maybe More

Credit: Sgt. Pete Gammie/Commonwealth of Australia
Under South Korean defense acquisition rules, every contender in an equipment competition must offer to transfer technology or provide work for local industry. But if the defense ministry does not want to pay a premium for that service, it has a simple solution: It does not hold a competition. That...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

Kim Minseok

Kim Minseok covers South Korean defense. He has worked as a journalist for South Korean military magazines Military Review and Defense Times. Mr Kim is also a research fellow at the Korea Defense and Security Forum, a think tank.

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