The Blue House announced that the achievement of the Moon Jae-in government's achievement of doubling arms exports through the peace of the New Southern Policy and achieving $10 billion was titled "Rifle to Fighter".
Park Soo-hyeon, senior communications officer, announced at a briefing on the 26th that “The Moon Jae-in government’s overwhelming budget investment is laying the foundation for an era of $10 billion in defense exports.”
Under the title of “Korea’s defense industry, from rifles to fighters,” Chief Park said, “President Moon Jae-in, defense-industrial cooperation is a powerful force in security and economic cooperation,” and said on Facebook of “The President’s Story Not in the Briefing (29).”
Chief Park continued, "On the 21st, major media outlets published titles such as 'Korea, the ninth largest arms exporter in the world, one step up', 'K-Defense was worth the name', and 'Korea doubled arms exports in 5 years, ranked 9th in the world', etc. Articles about defense achievements poured out," he said.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden's '2020 International Arms Trade Trend Report' reported that 25 US fighters and 5 German submarines imported Korean arms, and arms exports were Australia 55%, UK 14%, Philippines 12%, Thailand 11%. On March 15th, it announced that it was 'the world's 5th largest submarine exporting country'.
South Korea's arms exporting country Britain reached the peak of confrontation with China by providing support for building nuclear submarines and high-enriched uranium materials to Australia through a trilateral security alliance with the United States (AUKUS). After passing the National Assembly by requesting restoration of the project cost, he visited Australia and signed a contract to sell more than 1 trillion won in arms, linking most arms exports to the peace of the New Southern Policy.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on the 27th that it exported $111.9 billion this year through the 3P strategy of People, Peace, and Prosperity as a result of four years of achievement at the ‘New Southern/New Northern Trade Cooperation Forum’ on the 27th.
President Moon formalized the 'Power-Based Peace' policy to commemorate Armed Forces Day on October 1st, saying, “Peace built and maintained on the basis of strong national defense can guarantee lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.” On the 27th, the East Asia Summit (EAS) )', he linked the 'Declaration of the End of the War' with 'Peace based on strength' and reinforcement of armaments, saying, "Opening the door to dialogue, is an important starting point for peace on the Korean Peninsula, in Asia, and further into the world."
Power-based peace was embodied in the Reagan regime's 'peace through strength' from the hard-line conservative system of the US Republican Party to the reinforcement of the Cold War system and armaments to break the spine of the Soviet socialist economic system.
Next, the Moon Jae-in regime developed “incentives for dialogue” in the two-sided strategy of “breaking North Korea’s socialist economy” and “North Korea’s bright future” by significantly increasing arms under the Trump regime.
The Moon Jae-in government accelerated the ultra-high-speed armaments system 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), increasing denuclearization policy to North Korea and intensive arms exports to Australia and Southeast Asia As the ninth-largest exporter, the U.S. rose to the third-largest arms importer.
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