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Chaewon Chung
Chaewon Chung is a Seoul correspondent at NK News. Before joining NK News, she covered disinformation and technology with a focus on the Korean Peninsula at Coda Story.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed a $717 million defense deal on Monday, in an agreement that appears to align with the U.S. strategy to contain China in the Indo-Pacific.
The announcement came on the third day of Moon’s visit to Australia for the Korea-Australia Expanded Summit, during which the two sides agreed to upgrade their bilateral relations and address what Morrison called “mutual security challenges.”