Security & Strategic Review - May 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

PERU | Upgrading the air force. During an early-May visit to Seoul President Ollanta Humala and his South Korean peer Lee Myung-bak agreed to raise the bilateral relationship to the status of ‘integral strategic association.’ Humala announced that he expected prompt conclusion of negotiations to buy KT-1 training aircraft from Korean Aerospace Industries, and operation expected to cost about US$200m. In 2010 South Korea donated eight mothballed A-37 attack aircraft for counterinsurgency operations to Peru. In April this year the two countries signed two agreements on defence cooperation.

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