08.03.2013 - 13:23 [ Yonhap (Südkorea) ]

Defense minister nominee grilled over link to arms dealer at rocky hearing

Kim Byung-kwan, who had served as the deputy commander of S. Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Korea in 2006-2008, has been under mounting public and media pressure to resign because of his well-paid job as a consultant for a local arms broker from 2010-2011. The arms broker was involved in a controversial project to import faulty German tank parts for the Korean Army.