S Korea eager to build aircraft carrier as Asia Pacific tension rises

The United Kingdom's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is heading towards the Asia Pacific on a six-month mission being described as the most significant deployment of its kind in decades.
The move has angered China, which sees it as an intrusion into the South and East China seas.
And as Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports from the South Korean port city of Busan, the mission is fuelling debate among Asian nations about building their own carriers.


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[cheongwenpa]

An aircraft carrier also require an entire supporting fleet of destroyers, submarines, planes. It is more than just one ship.

[guitarninjarick]

Don't want to be the last kid on your block without a carrier, lol

[tommykaung]

When they finished, they should name the carrier
"Admiral Yi Sun Shin".

[jclulu]

Korea has a plan to build at least 3 carrier strike groups by 2030s. Last year the Ministry of Defense of Korea announced that it would spend about 300 billion US dollars for the next 5 years. Korea is a very rich and high-tech country. Its economy highly depends on overseas trade. It would be rather weird if Korea doesn't have any aircraft carriers.

[nightweaver]

Hope for the best in the Korean development of aircraft carriers. Definitely one of our (the US) major allies in previous wars. In the vietnam war, they've donated the greatest amount of soldiers second to the US... What bosses.

[SNOWDONTRYFAN]

Another carrier to add to what appears to be an ever growing powerful defence coalition in the region, who basically are done with Chinas assertion that it owns the South China sea and everything in it and under it

[teofilol]

South Korea certainly want an aircraft carrier that's controlled by themselves, instead of those controlled by a foreign power.

[johnleyvlog]

Good job South Korea 🙂👍
From: Philippines🇵🇭

[bwtjma]

-1:40 “it’s not the size of the deck that matters it’s the motion in the ocean baby!!”🤣

[jeraldleung]

No problem to build it but the training personels, pilots, jets are difficult and takd long time, but SK should help no problem to get from US and others

[Wanderer]

0:23 Isn't that literally a Queen Elizabeth class carrier without the ramp?

[terrenceescarda]

South Korea: Let's have our first Aircraft Carrier!
Japan: Convert the two helicopter destroyers!
China: 😬

[nathanmerritt]

They definitely have the money and technology. They can pull it off!

[homefrontsai]

Keep growing our South Korean brothers...
Support you from India...

[krokodilpil]

I would suggest smaller carriers that are mostly armed with drone attack craft. 50% fighter drone/50% suicide bomb drones by capacity. Cheaper, less runway required, faster. Traditional aircraft carriers and manned jets are going to be replaced.

[beachboy]

The South Korea aircraft carriers has two islands like the British.
The F35 is available for all friends with money 💰.

[tornadochaser]

Good for South Korea! Hopefully it gets built

[c.jester]

It is better to have a carrier than need 1 n find urself standing at the "peace summit " without 1

[zainhanif]

"bygone colonial-era" this isn't accurate as it still present in today's society it's just that no one calls it out or they don't call it that.

[zzirSnipzz]

Crazy to think all these years later a british design is again inspiring others to get two towers, same as Ark royal had inspired modern naval design all those years ago