ROK Army is phasing out berets and moving to the combat cap as standard. This is quiet force hardening, not fashion.
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DPRK🇰🇵 ROK🇰🇷 | 2025
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A senior State Department official told Reuters that U.S. policy toward North Korea remains denuclearization, ahead of Trump's upcoming Asia meetings including talks with China's President Xi. Washington is signaling it does not accept North Korea as a permanent nuclear weapons state.
South Korea’s defense minister & U.S. Defense Secretary will visit the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom, then meet in Seoul on Nov 4 for the 57th Security Consultative Meeting to talk extended deterrence, alliance modernization and North Korea.
A senior U.S. defense official says there is still no evidence North Korea has mastered operational hypersonic missiles, including reliable high speed reentry, despite Pyongyang’s recent launch claims.
The official also warned the North could conduct another nuclear test at any time.
The Pentagon says Hegseth will use next week’s Seoul meetings to push allies to boost defense spending and take on more of their own defense against Pyongyang, alongside talks on extended deterrence, combined posture and OPCON transfer.