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South Korea's government is pursuing sweeping defence reforms centred on building a technology-enabled military with selective conscription, responding to the country's demographic crisis and structural inefficiencies in its current conscription system.
Malaysia's Defence Ministry is advancing comprehensive proposals to reshape military organisational structures, accelerate career progression, and enhance allowances for armed forces personnel to align with defence asset modernisation.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has ordered a comprehensive review of promotion procedures affecting senior Malaysian Armed Forces officers, citing concerns that career advancement in the military lags behind other public sector roles.