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- South Korea is considering sharing precocious subject exertion pinch nan United States, nan United Kingdom and Australia done nan AUKUS partnership.
- The anticipation of this practice was discussed during meetings betwixt South Korea and Australia's defense and overseas ministers successful Melbourne.
- In 2021, nan U.S. and nan U.K. agreed to supply Australia pinch submarines powered by U.S. atomic exertion nether nan AUKUS agreement.
South Korea is considering sharing precocious subject exertion pinch nan United States, nan United Kingdom and Australia done nan alleged AUKUS partnership, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik said.
Shin said nan anticipation was discussed during 2 days of meetings betwixt South Korea and Australia’s defense and overseas ministers that ended successful nan Australian metropolis of Melbourne connected Wednesday.
The United States and nan United Kingdom agreed successful 2021 to supply Australia pinch a fleet of submarines powered by U.S. atomic exertion nether nan AUKUS statement to antagonistic a increasing subject beingness from China. AUKUS is an acronym for Australia, nan United Kingdom and nan United States.
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The countries could go progressive successful practice connected a wider scope of information technologies including artificial intelligence, physics warfare and hypersonic systems done what is known arsenic AUKUS Pillar 2.
South Korea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cho Tae-yul, left, is seen alongside South Korea's National Defense Minister Shin Won-sik during an Australia and South Korea Foreign and Defense Ministers gathering successful Melbourne, Australia, connected May 1, 2024. (Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/Pool Photo via AP)
Shin welcomed South Korea's invitation from nan 3 AUKUS partners.
"We do invited that AUKUS members are considering Korea arsenic an AUKUS Pillar 2 partner and Korea’s defense subject and exertion capabilities will lend to nan bid and stableness of nan improvement of AUKUS Pillar 2 and location peace," Shin said done a translator.
Japan is besides moving toward general talks to go portion of AUKUS Pillar 2’s exertion improvement and sharing.
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Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles welcomed South Korean efforts to build connected its narration pinch Japan, which on pinch Australia, nan United States and India shape a information speech known arsenic nan Quad.
"We spot this is simply a very, very affirmative measurement guardant successful nan strategical scenery of nan region and represents a immense opportunity for Australia to prosecute pinch some Korea and Japan," Marles told reporters.
"Korea and Australia are moving together to uphold nan rules-based bid wrong our region and, successful fact, wrong nan world," Marles added.
