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| S. Korea Beefs Up Defense Against Nork Nukes |
| 2009-06-24 |
| South Korean military authorities plan to introduce a defense system against an electromagnetic pulse wave unleashed by a nuclear explosion into major strategic facilities next year in case of a nuclear attack from North Korea. Military authorities will further beef up capabilities to respond to nuclear attack by reinforcing equipment for reconnaissance aircraft earlier than scheduled. The military will also introduce long-range, high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as the U.S.-made Global Hawk ahead of schedule next year to strengthen monitoring of North Korean moves to launch a nuclear provocation. The military will spend W64 billion (US$1=W1,290) to buy GBU-28 "bunker buster" bombs by next year, four years earlier than the original target of 2014. The bombs are capable of penetrating up to 30 m into the earth, enabling them to strike North Korea's underground nuclear facilities or command posts. The Defense Ministry on Tuesday reported the plans to a session of a Grand National Party ad hoc committee, according to committee members. The ministry mooted a budget of W6 billion in the 2010 government budget for the anti-EMP defense system for major strategic facilities such as Cheong Wa Dae. It wants to allocate W8 billion in next year's budget for the purchase of Global Hawk high-altitude UAVs from next year. It previously planned to introduce them in 2011. And W10 billion is to pay for more Geumgang aerial video reconnaissance and Baekdu communications monitoring reconnaissance aircraft, some of which are already in operation. Some W269.5 billion is to be spent on ballistic missiles and an early-warning radar system; W84.1 billion on GPS-guided joint direct attack munitions (JDAM); and about W71.2 billion on GBU-24 laser-guided bombs. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 OTOH WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC CHINA CANNOT AFFORD TO GO TO WAR, espec wid increasingly unstable rear = hinterland regions??? * SAME > A SECOND KOREAN WAR MAY FORCE CHINA TO DIVERT ITS BEST UNITS/MIL FORCES FROM AGZ INDIA, PAKISTAN AND TAIWAN. CHIINA NEEDS FIVE YEARS OR MORE TO BE READY FOR MODERN WAR AGZ US-ALLIES.; + RUSSIA IS HIGHLY FEARFUL OF CHINA'S TRANS-ASIAN ENERGY DEALS BECAUSE OF INCREASE IN CHINA'S PRESTIGE, GEOPOL AND TERRITORIAL EXPANSIONISMS AT THE EXPENSE OF RUSSIA'S, IN ADDITION TO RUSSIA ALREADY EXPERIENCING STEADY LOSS IN INFLUENCE WID ITS FORMER CENTRAL ASIAN SSR'S [ -Stans]!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-06-24 23:33 |
| #2 OTOH WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC CHINA CANNOT AFFORD TO GO TO WAR, espec wid increasingly unstable rear = hinterland regions??? * SAME > A SECOND KOREAN WAR MAY FORCE CHINA TO DIVERT ITS BEST UNITS/MIL FORCES FROM AGZ INDIA, PAKISTAN AND TAIWAN. CHIINA NEEDS FIVE YEARS OR MORE TO BE READY FOR MODERN WAR AGZ US-ALLIES.; + RUSSIA IS HIGHLY FEARFUL OF CHINA'S TRANS-ASIAN ENERGY DEALS BECAUSE OF INCREASE IN CHINA'S PRESTIGE, GEOPOL AND TERRITORIAL EXPANSIONISMS AT THE EXPENSE OF RUSSIA'S, IN ADDITION TO RUSSIA ALREADY EXPERIENCING STEADY LOSS IN INFLUENCE WID ITS FORMER CENTRAL ASIAN SSR'S [ -Stans]!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-06-24 23:32 |
| #1 See? President Obama is creating American jobs. /sarcasm. Honestly, the idea that jobs not lost is the same as brand new jobs makes me want to reinstate corporeal punishment in the schools. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-24 16:51 |