First delivery of S. Korean heavy weapons comes to PolandGDYNIA, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda and the country’s defense minister on Tuesday took delivery of a first shipment of tanks and howitzers from South Korea, hailing the swift implementation of a deal signed in the summer in the face of the war in neighboring Ukraine.Duda and Mariusz Blaszczak were in the Polish Navy port of Gdynia, on the Baltic coast, to mark the arrival by sea of the first 10 Black Panther K2 tanks, along with 24 Thunder K9 howitzers, from a $5.8 billion deal with Seoul.“This is the future, this is the real strengthening of Poland’s security,” Duda said, standing before the tanks and the howitzers.Griner freed: WNBA star swapped for Russian, heads home2022 was year the horror of war returned to EuropeUkraine: Russia put rocket launchers at nuclear power plantUS sending $275 million in military aid to UkraineSouth Korea’s Minister of the Armaments Agency, Eom Dong-hwan, said the arrival of the Korean equipment has “great significance for the history of Korean-Polish relations.”Eom said the “world is watching with attention” the two countries’ rapidly developing defense cooperation, and expressed hope the tanks and howitzers will play a significant role in Poland’s defense at a time of “rapid changes in the security situation.”Blaszczak stressed that the armaments are among the wold’s most advanced technologies.The conservative government in Warsaw is also buying Korean-made multiple missile launchers, K239 Chunmoo, and FA-50 fighter jets, a light training and combat aircraft made jointly by Korea Aerospace and Lockheed Martin, for some $3 billion."