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| South Korea Plans to Deploy U.S. Missiles |
| 2003-11-05 |
| South Korea will begin deploying U.S.-made missiles next month that can strike most of North Korea, a defense ministry official said Wednesday. This is going to curl Kimmie’s hair! The Army Tactical Missile System Block 1A missiles, made by the U.S. company Lockheed Martin, has a range of 186 miles and will be deployed near the Demilitarized Zone - a 2 mile-wide border separating the two nations. ``We plan to start deploying the missiles next month,’’ said the official. South Korea has already purchased an undisclosed number of the weapons and intends to buy a total of 111 Army Tactical Missile System Block 1A missiles by 2004. It bought the early version of the system with a range of 102 miles in 1997. And I bet the accuracy of the Block 1A is a mite better than the Long-Dong. South Korea has expressed wishes to develop missiles with a longer range. It obtained U.S. approval in 2001 to develop missiles with a range of up to 186 miles. Under a 1979 accord with the United States, South Korea had been barred from developing missile with a range longer than 112 miles. Missiles with a range of 186 miles are capable of striking Pyongyang and other parts of North Korea including, Yongbyon, where the North says it is using spent nuclear fuel rods to make atomic bombs. What an amazing coincidence! |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Simple, Shipman. Buy the ATMS for yourself and get the D-9 for any kid on your shopping list. It'll kick any of those remote controlled model cars ass. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-11-5 9:33:25 PM |
| #5 Army Tactical Missile System Block 1A? Or the remotely controlled D-9? I'm in a quandary... and the Christmas buget is tight. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-5 8:39:54 PM |
| #4 Both Japan and SKorea have issued requests to purchase the PAT3 missile systems. I'm sure the first thing Japan will do, once they get a few, is to reverse-engineer one, see how many different ways they can improve it, and begin building their own. Within ten years, I'd expect a ring of these around all strategic areas in Japan. This is just one more thing that's giving the Chicoms sleepless nights. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-5 6:24:27 PM |
| #3 Yes, there are Patriot Batteries in SK. I can vouch for it as having spent a year in the "Land-of-Not-Quite-Right". |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2003-11-5 2:50:47 PM |
| #2 If the NK guy in the UN is calling Japanese citizens Japs, what does he call the SK citizens? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-5 1:38:13 PM |
| #1 This will take some of the 'poof' out of Kimmie-boy's hair. I wonder if we already have Patriot missles there or not. And the there is Japan.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-5 12:30:13 PM |