Just last week, a survey found that the nation’s military power is the fifth strongest in the world
According to the 2024 Global Firepower Report released by Global Firepower, a U.S. military power rating agency
This year, Korea ranked 5th, beating Britain, a country where the sun never sets
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(1)World Military Force Rankings
(2)a unit point
(3)※The closer the evaluation index based on survey of 145 countries is to zero, the stronger the military power
(4)U.S., Russia, China, Japan, Turkiye, Pakistan, Italy
(5)Resources Global Firepower GFP
Also last month, CNBC in the U.S. ran the title, “Will Korea become the world’s largest arms exporter?”
I reported on a special article on Korean weapons
South Korea will soon be ranked fourth in the world in defense exports by beating out its competitive and tricky competitors
The article reported on the reasons and strengths of Korean defense companies that were able to achieve rapid growth
To sum up the article
South Korea has faced a decades-long standoff with North Korea over a truce
It has its own domestic technology, from missiles to submarines to Aegis ships
There’s a huge variety of modernized weapons
It’s cleverly aligned with the U.S. and NATO Western weapons standards
The pace of development or modification is also fast due to the low dependence on foreign countries
Most of all, the delivery, delivery, and after-sales service are so fast
South Korea’s defense export competition, Germany, is tight
In 2018, Hungary ordered 44 Leopard tanks from Germany, which are more expensive than Korea’s K-2
As of 2023, only one Leopard tank had been delivered by Hungary
However, Korea has sold 1,000 K-2 K-9 tanks with Poland, so it will deliver the first delivery amount of the contract
It surprised the world by completing the delivery just three months after the contract was completed
just over 18 years ago
When Japan sent a survey ship to Dokdo, insisting that Dokdo was their land
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Behind you
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I sent the Aegis ship together, seeing the Korean Navy as narrow-bottomed
Of course, at that time, Japan had a powerful naval force armed with the latest Aegis ships
We were like children who couldn’t match Japan
But President Roh Moo Hyun has demonstrated a strong will to defend our territory in response to provocations
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(1)My fellow Koreans!
(1)Dokdo is our territory
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(1)Sink a single Japanese survey ship
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(2)Then President Roh Moo Hyun, the president of the Republic of Korea at the time, instructed the Japanese probe to crash and smash it if it came to Dokdo
Japan’s inability to provoke is possible because we have power
Now we have the world’s fifth-largest military force, two places ahead of Japan
Peace is protected by strong force, not by surrender