Tag Archive for: "South Korea"
South Korea’s developing blue water navy

A little over two weeks ago, the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) launched its fourth 1,800 ton German Type 214 submarine in a ceremony attended by President Park Geun-hye. Featuring modern Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP) and …

The Korean War – 60 years on

This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of the armistice between North and South Korea which ended the fighting of the Korean War but not technically the war; a formal peace treaty was never signed. Australia …

Information warfare on the Korean peninsula

Over the last decade, security dilemmas on the Korean peninsula have become progressively more ‘hybrid’ and multi-faceted. Traditional conventional threats, scenarios and contingencies linked to high intensity conventional wars, have been converging with a range …

Getting Japan right

At first glance, it appears that the recent election results in Japan and the early policy pronouncements of the Abe government indicate that Japan has shifted significantly to the right and that this will increase …