The Firearms Blog reports that the ROK Army unit being deployed to Afghanistan will be armed with the K11 airburst assault rifle (follow the link for more information including picture and video of the rifle).
This rifle is derived from an American experimental project that was abandoned for good reasons.
While I applaud South Korea’s effort to [...]

The last time the North and South Korean navies clashed seriously in 2002, the latter came off badly.
The ROK Navy seems to have been better prepared this time:
According to South Korean officials, fighting erupted when a 215-ton North Korean vessel ventured across the so-called Northern Limit Line, a sea border drawn by the United Nations [...]

My apologies to Richardson and the readers of this blog for months of silence (I will write an explanation at some point). But here is some good news from South Korea if you are a gun nut like I am:
South Korea’s defence ministry has announced plans to sell up to 86,000 M1 Garand rifles to [...]

Predicting the future is a chancy business at best and rarely rewards either the prognosticator or the consumers of the fortunetelling. Nonetheless, I offer the following thoughts as a conversation-starter.
With the recent speculation of Kim Jong-Il’s ill health, incapacitation and perhaps death, it might be useful to conceptualize the political shape of the Korean Peninsula [...]

The Combined Forces Command (CFC) Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL) exercise is no more; it has been replaced by the Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) exercise, which started on 18 August and ends on 22 August. The change is more than just the name as this year the South Korean military took the lead role as [...]

Victor Cha, in the Chosun Ilbo, discusses the problem - the current lack of a joint plan should Kim Jong-il die and North Korea spirals into chaos:
In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact the South Korean economy and security for decades, there is no agreed upon plan for how [...]

A seemingly small thing, but meaningful to both the families of the sailors that died, and to the service:
South Korea Tuesday renamed the 2002 inter-Korean naval clash in the West Sea to better reflect the nature of the battle, fought to defend the de facto sea border against invasion from the North, which does [...]

In written comments to questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee concerning his nomination to replace Gen. B.B. Bell, current director of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon Gen. Walter Sharp lobbied for improved missile defense in South Korea:
North Korea has 13,000 artillery systems and 800 missiles, and South Korea lacks anti-missile [...]

The latest edition of the Military Review, a publication of the US Army’s Combined Arms Center located at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has an excellent paper on, “Finding America’s Role in a Collapsed North Korean State.” (PDF) An excerpt:
American military and political thinkers today are focused on creating policies to govern stability operations, but this invariably [...]

From AFP:
South Korea Wednesday launched its newest attack submarine, amid tensions with North Korea over their disputed sea border. The 1,800-ton diesel-electric submarine, the second of its size in the fleet, was launched at a Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in the southeastern city of Ulsan. The submarine is named “Jeongji” after a Korean military officer [...]