President Moon Jae-in will make a state visit to Australia on the 12th, focusing on arms exports to Asia and Australia for five years under the ‘peace’ and ‘New Southern Policy’, accounting for 55% of the total.
Australia has reached the apex of confrontation with China by providing nuclear submarines and highly enriched uranium raw materials to Australia as AUKUS, a trilateral security alliance with the United States and Britain under the Biden regime. The request for restoration was passed by the National Assembly.
According to Sweden's Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in the '2020 International Arms Trade Trend Report', the import of 25 US fighters and 5 German submarines accounted for a large portion of Korea's arms imports. It was announced on March 15th that it was “the world’s fifth largest submarine exporter” in the order of 12% and Thailand 11%.
On September 7, 2016, during a rally in Philadelphia, Donald Trump said, "There is no nation without defense. “I will greatly enhance our national defense capabilities to advance the national interest of the United States and alleviate tensions around the world,” he said.
In his campaign speech, candidate Trump spoke of restoring the 'peace through strength' of Republican President Reagan's 'peace through strength' in the 1980s, which strengthened the Cold War system, and the US military power that the Clinton and Obama administrations are reducing. “We will prevent international conflicts based on clear military superiority,” he said.
The Reagan regime promoted the strategy of breaking the backbone of the Soviet socialist economic system by strengthening the Cold War system by increasing arms and expanding the budget deficit of a supply-dominant economy, through manipulation of the media by strategic groups such as Land Corporation and the CIA intelligence agency.
In his remarks in commemoration of the Armed Forces Day on October 1, President Moon spoke of the 'Power-Based Peace' policy by saying that peace built on the basis of strong national defense and maintained can guarantee lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, and on the 27th, the 'East Asia Summit (EAS)' In his speech, he said about the 'declaration of the end of the war' proposed to the UN General Assembly in September, saying, "This is an important starting point for opening the door to dialogue and moving toward peace on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia, as well as in the world."
At the end of his term in office, the Trump administration approved the sale of more than 20 US$23 billion worth of foreign arms by the end of his term in October 2020.
The U.S. State Department approved the sale of precision-guided weapons (PGM) and related equipment worth a total of $258 million to South Korea on August 25, and guidance devices for joint direct strike bombs (JDAM, GBU-31) for U.S. weapons imported from Korea. In addition to 3,953 pieces of 'KMU-556' and 1,981 pieces of 'KMU-557', the press release announced that the 'DSU-42/B' laser precision guidance device and related parts, and technical support for these weapons, were included in the press release.
The US State Department notified Congress on the 1st that it would approve the sale of two anti-ship missile defense systems to South Korea, and said it was worth $39 million.
Foreign Police magazine reported, “President Moon Jae-in increased his defense budget by an average of 6.5% during his tenure, surpassing that of Japan, which has 2.5 times the population of South Korea. South Korea is the sixth largest military power in the world and has more military power than Europe combined. Prepared.
The Moon Jae-in administration has increased arms exports to Australia and Southeast Asian countries in North Korea’s denuclearization policy as a high-speed arms-boosting country, with a 210% increase in arms exports compared to the previous five years and a 57% increase in arms imports over the previous five years (2020-2015). and the third largest arms importer of the United States.
Real estate prices increased intensively under the Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in administrations, both of which had a common feature of accelerating military expansion in relation to fiscal expansion.