Agreement Reached on Korea-US Space Policy Research... Final Signing

[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] South Korea and the United States have agreed to conduct joint research on space policy. The two countries held the Korea-US Director-level Defense Space Cooperation Working Group (SCWG) and created a joint statement that presented the direction for the development of space policy for the first time.

The Ministry of National Defense announced on the 26th that the defense ministries of both countries reached this agreement at the 18th Korea-US Director-level SCWG held in Washington DC, USA, on the 25th (local time).

The joint statement includes specific initiatives to strengthen alliance-level space response capabilities in preparation for space security threats, the Ministry of National Defense explained. The Korea-US joint research on space policy was first proposed by the Korean side at the 14th SCWG in February 2020, and after two years of discussions, it was finalized and signed at this meeting.

The two countries agreed to continue defense space cooperation to achieve the strategic value of space cooperation and strengthen joint space capabilities, including ▲ information sharing for a common understanding of the space domain ▲ training and exercises to cultivate space experts ▲ enhancing joint space operation capabilities through improved interoperability. They also agreed to regularly review the implementation status through the SCWG meetings to ensure that the joint space policy research is realized as an actionable policy.

The meeting was attended by Cho Yong-geun, Director of North Korea Policy at the Ministry of National Defense, and John Hill, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy from the US Department of Defense. Since the Korea-US Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) in October 2012, where the Defense Space Cooperation Working Group agreement was signed, the SCWG has been held 18 times from the following year up to this year.

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