Filipino Defence Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana and his counterpart from the
Defence Minister of the RoK Song Young-moo (R) shakes hands with his Filipino counterpart Delfin N. Lorenzana at the ministry office in
The agreement was reached during Lorenzana’s visit to the RoK to attend the steel cutting ceremony for two frigates that the
At the meeting, Song briefed his guest on the outcomes of the Inter-Korean Summit last week. He also requested the Southeast Asian nation’s support for efforts of the RoK to achieve the denuclearisation of the
For his part, Lorenzana lauded the positive results reached during the summit and expressed his country's backing for the RoK’s intiatives.
The two defence chiefs also pledged to move forward partnerships in arms development.
In 2017, the RoK inked a contract to build two 2,600-tonne frigates for the Philippine Navy. Earlier, the country sold a dozen of FA-50 light attack aircraft to the
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