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Visit of General Lee Youngsu, Chief of Staff, ROK Air Force to India on 17-21 March 2024

ํŠน๋ณ„ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ฐธ๋ชจ์ด์žฅ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ

์ด์˜์ˆ˜ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ฐธ๋ชจ์ด์žฅ์€ 2024๋…„ 3์›” 17์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 20์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณต์‹ ์ธ๋„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์„ ๋งˆ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด๋ธ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ธ๋„ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ฐธ๋ชจ์ด์žฅ์ธ Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณต๋™ ๊ด€์‹ฌ ๋ถ„์•ผ์™€ ์–‘๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ์ฆ์ง„ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ธ๋„ Defence Secretary Mr. Giridhar Armane์™€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ถ„์•ผ์ธ ํ•ญ๊ณต์šฐ์ฃผ, AI, ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์˜์ˆ˜ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ฐธ๋ชจ์ด์žฅ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์œ„์‚ฐ์—…์ฒญ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€ ์ค‘ ์ธ๋„ ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ถŒ์œ„์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ธ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ(DRDO)์˜ ํšŒ์žฅ์ธ Dr. Samir V Kamat๊ณผ์˜ ๋งŒ๋‚จ์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋งŒ๋‚จ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ตฐ ๊ด€๋ จ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์™€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณต๋™์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ ๋ถ„์•ผ ํ™•์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๋ฅผ ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ตฐ์€ ๊ด„๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅด(Gwalior)์™€ ์•„๊ทธ๋ผ(Agra)์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ๊ธฐ์ง€ ๋‘ ๊ณณ๊ณผ, 1950-1953๋…„ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „์Ÿ ๋‹น์‹œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜์˜€๋˜ ์ธ๋„ ์œก๊ตฐ ์ œ 60 ๊ณต์ˆ˜ ์•ผ์ „ ๋ณ‘์› ๋ถ€๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์˜์ˆ˜ ๊ณต๊ตฐ ์ฐธ๋ชจ์ด์žฅ์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„์ถฉ์›์—์„œ ์ „์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ตฐ์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2024๋…„ 3์›”์—๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์–‘๊ตญ๊ฐ„ ๊ต๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋„์™€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์™ธ๊ต๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์€ 3์›” 5-6์ผ ๊ณต๋™์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ตœํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh ์ธ๋„ ์™ธ๊ต๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์€ ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฐ ์ œ 3์ฐจ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ์ •์ƒํšŒ์˜์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3์›” 20์ผ ๊ฐœ์ตœ๋œ KNDA/KIEP-ICWA/RIS 2+2 ์ •์ฑ…๋Œ€ํ™”์—๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ธ๋„์˜ ์”ฝํฌํƒฑํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ์—ฌ ์ธํƒœ ์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ด ์ธ๋„- ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ค‘์ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ต๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–‘๊ตญ์ด ํŠน๋ณ„ ์ „๋žต์  ๋™๋ฐ˜์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ROK AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF VISITS INDIA TO STRENGTHEN STRATEGIC TIES

General Lee Youngsu, Chief of Staff, ROK Air Force undertook an official visit to India on 17-21 March 2024. In New Delhi, he held bilateral talks with Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Chief of Indian Air Force. Both sides discussed issues of mutual interest and means to further enhance cooperation between the two Air Forces. He also met the Defence Secretary of India Giridhar Armane and discussed new areas of cooperation in field of aerospace, AI and cyber technologies.

2. General Lee also held discussions with Dr. Samir V Kamat, Chairman of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India, a premier organisation on similar lines as of ROK’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA). The discussions highlighted the need to strengthen R&D collaboration and identifying new areas of common interest, especially related to the air forces.

3. The ROK AF Delegation also visited two Indian Air Force bases at Gwalior and Agra. General Lee also visited 60 PARA Field Hospital, the Indian Army medical unit which provided medical support during the Korean War (1950-53). Earlier, General Lee had begun his India visit by paying homage to the fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial in New Delhi.

4. March 2024 saw a number of bilateral exchanges. The Joint Commission Meeting co-chaired by the Foreign Ministers of India and ROK was held on 06 March. Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Mr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh participated in the 3rd Summit of Democracy in Seoul. The KNDA/KIEP-ICWA/RIS 2+2 Policy Dialogue among ROK and Indian think-tanks was held on 20 March, focusing on India-ROK ties in the Indo-Pacific context. These exchanges underscore the commitment of both sides to strengthen their Special Strategic Partnership.