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With a trade deficit of $590 million in December of last year and a cumulative deficit of $1.93 billion at the end of October, the country created a twin deficit system, ranking fourth in defense technology investment. The Defense Technology Promotion Research Institute's '2021 National Defense Science and Technology Level Survey' announced on the 10th that Korea ranked fourth in defense R&D inv..

The U.S. State Department announced on the 25th in a press release that it has approved the sale of precision-guided weapons (PGM) and related equipment worth a total of $258 million to South Korea on the 25th. The US weapons to be imported by Korea include 3,953 'KMU-556' and 1,981 'KMU-557' and 'DSU-42/B' laser precision guidance devices for joint direct strike (JDAM, GBU-31) missiles. and rel..