Regarding the media coverage of “Submarine Output License Collected? The Navy Marches Forward Ignorantly”, the Navy Command Headquarters released a press release today (3^rd) as follows:

1. The acquisition of submarines is a policy that has been continued to date from past governments. Submarines are a key combat force for national security; the Navy has put in tremendous efforts to break through the predicament and will be completing self-produced submarines in the future to achieve the target citizens have been anticipating for a long time.

2. The media coverage does not match the current facts and attempted to sabotage the implementation of this caseas well as quoting false comments to influence the citizens and the budget acquisition from the Legislative Yuan; its ulterior motive is indeed suspicious.

3. The national submarine manufacturing case has been executed according to the planned progress, and its project progress report is expected to be implemented at the Legislative Yuan during late March; the entire procedure will be supervised by the Legislative Yuan and publicly evaluated.