For the first time this year, a South Korean Navy rear admiral is going to be in charge of part of the world's largest international naval drills next month in Hawaii the U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific Exercise.
South Korea's taken part in the drills 16 times, but to date has so far been represented by a captain.
The details have not been finalized, but the Navy says it plans to send two large vessels the 14-and-a-half-thousand ton amphibious assault ship Marado and an 18-hundred-ton submarine.
It'll be the first time for the country to deploy vessels of that size.
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