Reply With QuoteSWEET!Maybe they could do a joint carrier program like France & UK.
S Korea, Japan military pact soon
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...02_110567.html
05-08-2012 17:16 Korea-Japan military pacts
Military authorities Tuesday confirmed that Korea and Japan have been in talks on accords to share military intelligence and exchange military goods and services.
Given the sensitivity of the military agreement between the neighboring countries, the government will have to take a careful approach although we feel the need to step up bilateral intelligence cooperation owing to rising threats from North Korea.
Military officials from Korea and Japan are known to be negotiating to complete the deal by the end of this month after failing to agree twice ― first late last year and second earlier this month. Specifically, Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin may visit Japan at the end of May to sign the pacts with his Japanese counterpart Naoki Tanaka.
The pacts, if signed, will be the first military agreement between the two sides since Japan’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula ended in 1945. The two defense chiefs discussed the pacts in Seoul in January last year but failed to reach agreement.
SWEET!
Good news. Hopefully, the ultra-nationalist hotheads on both sides won't ruin things.
Very good first steps toward a deepening defense relationship between the two neighbors, and with any luck they can finally manage to shepherd these measures safely through.
They are at the beginning of a delicate courtship dance, where both signs of sincerity and graceful execution, as well as mis-steps and faux pas, can take on magnified significance. But when the logic for cooperation and the confluence of mutual interests are as compelling as for Japan and Korea, the reaching of each milestone provides heightened momentum for successive developments, establishing a kind of virtuous cycle.
Good luck to both countries.
Sweet. The Japanese will benefit from the lower manufacturing costs in Korea and the Koreans will benefit from the design capabilities of the Japanese.
In my view, the significance of these agreements are only very incidentally economic in the near term. The cost structures of the two countries are now a long way toward convergence, and the differences will be rendered completely meaningless within the next decade, as will, broadly speaking, design capabilities (although they may have their respective strengths).Originally Posted by twinblade
The economic payoff will come if, as mentioned by C.Puffs, the relationship develops to the point that they can take advantage of pooling of resources and economies of scale in major joint projects. But IMO, this is still a goal to be achieved, which will not immediately materialize as a result of these promising initial accords.
More than anything else, the significance is that they are finally taking the first official steps toward strategic and military cooperation. If they don't feck things up in the early stages (it's high time that the historical legacy issues and Dokdo are finally put to bed), I believe that the momentum of aligned interests and values will do the rest.
Hopefully, this can iron out their relations with each other and get the whole japanesse colonialization thing behind them.
I hope they do a joint venture on military hardware. I can't wait to see what fighter planes or warships they could bring up if ever
Didn't there use to be a user here that always claimed that Japan and Korea would fight to the death before cooperating or something like that? Slowman I think
So, Gundams finally? A man can hope, right?
Could you imagine a joint US/SK/Japan Team Spirit?............
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Slowman was a troll.
As a veteran of Team Spirit 90, I would almost be tempted to reenlist for that....almost....Could you imagine a joint US/SK/Japan Team Spirit?
Was it Slowman? He said a lot of things, but I dont think that was it.
If I recall, he tended to actually say Japan and SK should cooperate more, esp with the PRC on the horizon.
A new Team Spirit, hell with even more (Taiwan, Russia) would be enough to make me touch myself
SK should offer Japan to be a partner for the KFX project and/or collaborate ATD-X.
BTW, where is Ambassador??
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