00:00 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines to change their strategy
00:07 in defending the borders and national security.
00:10 Meanwhile, the President has been given a strong mandate to develop the occupied islands of the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea.
00:20 This is Bea Bernardo reporting from the center of the news.
00:25 A command conference was held with the top officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Camp Aguinaldo.
00:32 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. also joined the activity.
00:36 According to AFP Chief of Staff General Romeo Browner Jr.,
00:40 the President has ordered them to reconfigure their strategy in dealing with the security threat in the country.
00:46 New People's Army, terrorism, and threats to our territory and our borders are among the threats to national security.
00:55 The President mentioned that we have to think of new ways of dealing with them, innovative ways.
01:02 That is why we have to really make sure that we study all of these things very carefully so that we come up with the necessary solutions.
01:14 A while ago, the President said that there is no active guerrilla front in the country.
01:19 Only 11 are the weekend guerrilla fronts.
01:22 According to AFP's statistics last December, only 1,500 members of the NPA are in the country.
01:29 AFP's target is to end the problem of insurgency so that they can focus on territorial defense.
01:36 In addition, they will continue to strengthen their ability to protect our country.
01:42 For now, they are continuing to organize a list of assets that they want to buy under the AFP Modernization Program Horizon 3.
01:50 According to Browner, they have included their desired assets in the archipelagic concept.
01:55 That is why some of their priorities to buy are ships, aircrafts and radars.
02:00 AFP is also developing some islands in the West Philippine Sea, particularly Pag-asa and Lawak Island.
02:06 We are making these features more habitable for our troops because we have troops there.
02:14 We have marines in that area.
02:16 According to the AFP chief of staff, the construction of military facilities in some occupied features of the Philippines in the region has already started.
02:24 There are some features that the Philippines is occupying in the South China Sea.
02:28 Bea Bernardo, for the nation.
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