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■South Korea seeks another airport for US wartime reinforcements as Gwangju base makes way for chip fabs ■Japan widens its emergency consultation network with like-minded defence partners ■USS Colorado will be the first US attack submarine to rotate through Western Australia under AUKUS ■Philippines in talks on visiting forces pacts with three or four more countries, Teodoro says ■Australia picks former Rio Tinto boss Kellie Parker to run its new defence delivery agency ■Malaysia's first two FA-50M light combat jets are due on Friday, defence minister says ■South Korea seeks another airport for US wartime reinforcements as Gwangju base makes way for chip fabs ■Japan widens its emergency consultation network with like-minded defence partners ■USS Colorado will be the first US attack submarine to rotate through Western Australia under AUKUS ■Philippines in talks on visiting forces pacts with three or four more countries, Teodoro says ■Australia picks former Rio Tinto boss Kellie Parker to run its new defence delivery agency ■Malaysia's first two FA-50M light combat jets are due on Friday, defence minister says

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A grey twin-tail South Korean fighter jet climbs into an overcast sky

South Korea seeks another airport for US wartime reinforcements as Gwangju base makes way for chip fabs

Defence minister Kang Shin-chul says Seoul and Washington are discussing a reserve airport to take over Gwangju's role as a landing point for US troops and supplies in a war.

TaiwanDefence · 29m ago · 3 min read

Two defence ministers in suits stand together on the deck of a grey Japanese warship

Japan widens its emergency consultation network with like-minded defence partners

Tokyo is speeding up bilateral frameworks to consult Australia, France, Germany and the Philippines in a crisis, and plans to write them into its new security strategy.

TaiwanDefence · 1h ago · 3 min read