South Korea to shorten procedures for acquiring military forces... President Yoon says ``Speed is security''

On the 20th, South Korean President Yoon Seo-gyul presided over the third meeting of the National Defense Innovation Commission at the presidential office in Seoul, and announced a policy to significantly shorten the time from weapons procurement to deployment.
Ta. In order to counter North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, he emphasized that ``speed is the key to security'' in the process of acquiring military power. Yun said, ``Acquiring military forces for security purposes is not part of normal government procurement procedures.
We must strictly differentiate and move forward with the process with a sense of speed." If the general procedures are applied as they are, ``it will be nothing but the deployment of weapons whose useful life has passed.''
``This is not only a waste of public finances, but also incompetence in security.'' We will radically innovate unnecessary procedures and improve efficiency so that the military can deploy the weapons it needs with the highest priority.
instructed to change it. Emphasizing that North Korea is the only country in the world that enshrines invasion and nuclear first strike in its constitution, Yun said, ``North Korea's provocations will continue according to their timetable, so
We must be fully prepared." In addition, the United States and South Korea recently proposed a plan to promote integrated extended deterrence at the second Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) meeting held in Washington, DC.
``We have built a foundation for close cooperation between the United States and South Korea in all decision-making processes for the use of extended deterrence forces,'' he said. In the future, both countries will share South Korea's surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
He emphasized that by utilizing a real-time sharing system for missile warning information between Japan, the United States, and South Korea, ``we will effectively suppress North Korea's increasingly sophisticated nuclear and missile threats.''
On this day, President Yoon expressed his gratitude to the researchers at the National Institute of Defense Science and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, who successfully created the first military reconnaissance satellite and solid-propelled space projectile. Mr. Yun
``I hope that Japan will continue to make efforts to further advance the technology of satellites and launch vehicles.''