TehnoMil

Inghesuiala mare in calificarile pentru SAFE, mecuirile se joaca in deplasare, la Bruxelles:

“I can indeed confirm <…> that Turkey and South Korea had expressed their interest to also start bilateral negotiations to be associated fully to SAFE. This is also the case for Japan, I can confirm this today, on top of Canada where we have already successfully concluded a bilateral agreement to be associated to SAFE,”

Sursa: tass.com

Aperitivul

Ce-i mana pe ei in lupta, studiu de caz: Coreea de Sud

The Yoon administration has been pursuing an ambitious target of climbing from eighth place to fourth place in the global defense export rankings by capturing 5 percent (or more) of the market by 2027.

The Yoon administration has doubled down on efforts to establish a more resilient and broad-ranging national defense industry, as evidenced by the Industrial Supply Chain 3050 Strategy, which aims to lower South Korea’s overall dependence on 185 critical items, including components used to manufacture weapons and weapons parts, by 50 percent by 2030. In this context, a crucial point is to foster greater participation of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the defense industry market, as their export share–around 7 to 10 percent of total exports–remains low compared to that of bigger firms. Initiatives like the Global Value Chain 30 Strategy, which is intended to promote the entry of SMEs from the defense industrial space into the global value chain, are a positive step both in terms of sourcing materials and locating markets for their products.

Sursa: asaninst.org

Salata (tot) de Bruxelles: SAFE

The introduction of the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program is undermining not only Korea’s growing foothold in Poland — the largest single‑country buyer of Korean weapons, with combined deals estimated at $23 billion since 2022 — but also in other European and Atlantic defense markets.

The 150 billion euro ($177 billion) initiative, announced in March, provides low-interest loans to member nations alike to purchase military equipment and jointly strengthen Europe’s defense capabilities, but with an asterisk: a priority on European-made products.

“To be fair, it’s ordinary for European countries to buy European weapons,” Prof. Jang Won-joon of Jeonbuk National University’s defense industry convergence program, told the Korea JoongAng Daily. “Korea’s success in Poland in 2022 is an extraordinary case.”

Sursa: koreajoongangdaily.joins.com

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