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Thursday, February 28, 2013

South Korea boost missile defenses

South Korea and the United States Marines follow Winter military exercises on Pyeonchang, some 180km from Seoul, South Korea, Thursday (7/2). North Korea has vowed to launch more rockets and nuclear test in response to UN censure of the launch of a long-range missile last December.(REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won)

... will speed up the development of ballistic missiles with a range of 800 kilometers ... "
Seoul (AFP)-South Korea, Wednesday, States will accelerate the development of long-range missiles that can reach all areas of North Korea in response to Pyongyang's third nuclear test. Yesterday the Pyongyang test fly system to confirm the success of their "mini" nuclear weapons. A free trial of it to cause seismic activity equivalent to 4.9 on the Richter scale with a roughly seven-kiloton warhead. Hiroshima atomic bomb by The Little Boy bomb on August 6, 1945, consisting of 20 kilotons.

"We will accelerate the development of ballistic missiles with a range of 800 kilometers," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of South Korea, Kim Min-Seok, told reporters. Not just Pyongyang that could be achieved, but also Beijing and China's cities in the country-side Bamboo Curtain.

In October last year, South Korea has reached an agreement with the United States expanded the range of their missiles system up to three times as much. South Korea based it is essential in order to ward off missiles North Korea nuclear program and answers to Pyongyang.

The UNITED NATIONS puts soldiers in South Korea 28,500 and guarantee a "nuclear umbrella" If the adversary State Ginseng that attacked the use of nuclear weapons. In return, South Korea should be subject to the provisions of the limitation of the ability of misilnya.

Based on the agreement in last October, South Korea develop missiles capable of roaming is limited to 300 kilometers.

Editor: Ade Marboen

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