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South China Morning Post
23-06-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Why more young Chinese have military academies in their sights
Advertisement The defence ministry's announcement last month that three new military academies would start recruiting high school graduates from this summer has been viewed more than 8 million times on social media platform Weibo. Many users said they were excited to have the opportunity to serve their country. The new academies are the People's Liberation Army Ground Force Service Academy in Hefei, Anhui province; the PLA Information Support Force Engineering University in Wuhan, Hubei; and the PLA Joint Logistics Support Force Engineering University in Chongqing. But recruitment will not be expanded – the total number of new recruits will be 'basically the same' as last year, the ministry said, without elaborating. The new academies have incorporated some units from existing military schools. Those mergers are part of a restructure of the military education system in recent years, which the ministry said was being done to create a 'more efficient and higher quality' system for nurturing talent and to achieve what it called a 'core need for war preparation'. The ministry has also scrapped the requirement for military academy students to have three years of work experience before they can become commanders. From this year, students can sit postgraduate entrance exams to follow this career path immediately after they graduate from a military academy.
Fox News
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Kim Jong Un supervises North Korea's air drills, pushes for enhanced war preparation
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the country's air force drills and emphasized the need to intensify war preparation, according to state media. Kim inspected anti-aircraft combat and air strike drills conducted by North Korea's 1st Air Division on Thursday, the Korean Central News Agency reported. The North Korean leader called for all military units to achieve "a breakthrough in war preparation," according to the outlet. Footage of the drills aired on state TV showed a MiG-29 jet launching a missile that appeared to be a North Korean version of a Russian-developed mid- to long-range air-to-air missile, according to Hong Min, North Korea analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification. Earlier this month, the North Korean leader supervised a missile test, inspected tank and munitions plants, and made a rare stop at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang to reaffirm the nation's alliance with Moscow. He also oversaw tank firing drills and special operations training. North Korea also condemned the U.S. State Department for including it on a list of countries that do not fully cooperate with U.S. counterterrorism efforts -- a designation it has received annually since 1997, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency. "The more the U.S. provokes the [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] with unnecessary and inefficient malicious acts, the further it will escalate the irreconcilable hostility between the DPRK and the U.S.," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. "The DPRK will ... take effective and proper measures to cope with the U.S. hostile provocations in all spheres," the spokesperson continued.
