Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
The carrier, which already has North American connections from Beijing and Shanghai, has applied to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to fly daily between New York John F. Kennedy International Airport and Tianjin Binhai International, with an extension to Shanghai Pudong International. Flights are intended to begin in June 2016, using Boeing 787s.
Seoul has plans for 1,700 ballistic missiles, including the Hyunmu 2 that has probably been developed with foreign assistance. At least one upgraded version is in service.
