South Korea hosts arms fair amid wars in Europe and Middle East

President Yoon Suk Yeol vows to keep expanding defense industry

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Visitors to a South Korean defense exhibition look at a display for an unmanned helicopter made by Hanwha Aerospace. (Photo by Kim Jaewon)

KIM JAEWON, Nikkei staff writer

SEONGNAM, South Korea -- South Korea kicked off a weeklong international aerospace and defense exhibition at a military airport near Seoul on Tuesday, aiming to use the biennial gathering as a launchpad to increase exports of the country's fighter jets, rocket launchers, drones and other weapons.

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