President Lee Jae-myung and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk agreed to upgrade ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership, with the leaders placing defence cooperation at the centre of the relationship.<\/p>\n
In remarks made before talks between the leaders at the presidential Blue House yesterday, Lee said the countries would further expand defence industry cooperation under a US$44.2bil (RM175.3bil) framework pact signed in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cK2 tanks, K9 self-propelled howitzers, FA-50 light-attack aircraft, and Chunmoo multiple rocket launchers \u2013 bearing South Korea\u2019s technology and pride \u2013 are now safeguarding Poland\u2019s territory and its people across its vast lands,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n
He said the partnership extended beyond arms sales to include joint production, technology transfers and training.<\/p>\n
Tusk described South Korea as Poland\u2019s \u201cmost important ally after the United States, especially in the defence industry\u201d and said he would personally oversee expanded defence cooperation between the countries.<\/p>\n
He said the upgraded partnership meant the two countries would take on a shared responsibility and should play a role in contributing to global peace.<\/p>\n
The two leaders also affirmed expanded cooperation across a wide range of fields, including energy supply chains, infrastructure, science and technology, advanced industries, space and people-to-people exchanges.<\/p>\n
South Korea has become one of Poland\u2019s leading arms suppliers in recent years as Warsaw moves to rapidly modernise its military capabilities following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
In 2022, South \u200bKorea and Poland signed a defence framework \u200bagreement for South Korean companies to supply Poland with arms \u200cas well as jointly produce military equipment on Polish soil. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae-myung and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk agreed to upgrade ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1046,1017,64,1328,1325,1327,1125,1329,789,1324,908,1326],"class_list":{"0":"post-1457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-comprehensive-strategic-partnership","9":"tag-defence-cooperation","10":"tag-donald-tusk","11":"tag-energy-supply-chains","12":"tag-fa-50-aircraft","13":"tag-global-peace","14":"tag-k2-tanks","15":"tag-military-capabilities","16":"tag-polish-prime-minister-donald-tusk","17":"tag-president-lee-jae-myung","18":"tag-south-korea","19":"tag-technology-transfers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}