South Korea tests North Korea's charm offensive with a military parade in Seoul, special guest: the Hyunmoo-3c cruise missile.
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Is there a Global Epidemic of Protest?
In an article in The Diplomat, Robert Kelly raised an interesting question regarding whether the youth protests that have engulfed Turkey, Brazil, Egypt will spread to Asia. He argued that all of them have a common denominator with other Asian countries, where there are: [W]ell-educated youth, exposed through modern technologies to the reality of better, cleaner governance elsewhere. And...
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Will South Korea Ever Choose an FX-III Fighter?
One year later, South Korea still finds itself weighing options for a 60-plane order between Boeing's F-15 Silent Eagle, Lockheed Martin's F-35, and EADS' Eurofighter
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More joy for the F-35 in Asia?
The article below is a guest post by Mike Yeo, an aviation enthusiast and Singaporean photographer specializing in photography of aviation subjects. You can check out his portfolio here. We have recruited a number of talented and enthusiastic writers like Mike to revitalize Asia Security Watch over the coming year, so keep an eye out over the...
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Guest Post: Have the Dokdo Ad Wars Begun?
Tokyo has placed ads in Japanese laying claims on ownership. Are the battle lines being set?
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Japan’s Regional Security Environment and Possibilities for Conflict
The next 5 months could be one of high drama and tension in East Asia geopolitics due to various leadership transitions and elections. In South Korea we have already seen election year sensitivities coming to have real life policy consequences with the last-minute cancellation of the ACSA/GSOMIA military accords between Japan and the ROK. With the presidential...
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Military Pact Between South Korean and Japan Sidelined by Election Year Shenanigans
South Korea has shelved a pact with Japan that would have increased military cooperation and sharing of intelligence data
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North Korea Can’t Really Turn Seoul Into a “Sea of Fire”
For more than a decade, conventional wisdom has held that North Korea could subject the South Korean capital of Seoul to devastating artillery attack. With a greater metropolitan population of 24,000,000, Seoul has the largest population density of all the OECD countries, eight times more dense than New York City, and three times more dense than...
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