Top South Korean officials on Wednesday highlighted the Asian country's "cutting-edge" technologies and capabilities to deliver submarines "on time" and "on budget" as their Canadian counterparts pledged to have a "fair" process for its high-profile project to procure next-generation submarines. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back joined their Canadian counterparts, Anita Anand and David McGuinty, for their "two-plus-two" meeting in Ottawa, amid Seoul's stepped-up push to secure the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project, estimated at around 60 trillion won ($41 billion). Canada has been pushing for the project to procure up to 12 submarines for patrol missions. A South Korean consortium of Hanwha Ocean and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems are in the high-stakes competition. "We will deliver on time and within the budget. We did appeal to our Canadian friends in that aspect. We will be able to deliver two years ahead of Germany, and we did talk about many benefits that we could bring to Canada with our submarines," Cho said dur