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| Seoul to Urge Extension of Ballistic Missile Range | |
| 2012-03-23 | |
| Seoul and Washington are still discussing a revision to guidelines that limit the range of South Korean ballistic missiles to 300 km. Seoul wants to extend the range to 800-1,000 km in view of the growing missile threat from North Korea, a wish given greater urgency by the North's plan to launch what it says is a satellite-carrying rocket next month. The two sides agreed in principle last year to extend the range, a government source said on Thursday, but they "still differ over how far to extend the range." Seoul prefers 800-1,000 km, which would bring all of North Korea within range from Jeju Island or the south coast. But the U.S. apparently thinks that is too far and worries about opposition from China.
Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told lawmakers in a National Assembly audit last September, "We're discussing with the U.S. so that the missile range can cover the entire Korean Peninsula." President Lee Myung-bak recently told reporters ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, "By extending our missile range, we want to take preventive measures against attacks from the North. We need an appropriate range" The existing missile guidelines, signed in 1979 and revised in 2001, limit the range of South Korea's ballistic missiles to 300 km and their payload to 500 kg. That has stopped Seoul developing longer-range missiles even though the North has already deployed ballistic missiles with a range of more than 3,000 km. There is no limit to the range of cruise missiles, so Seoul developed the Hyunmu-3 cruise missile series with a range of 500-1,500 km. But they are less powerful and slower than ballistic missiles. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 BHARAT RAKSHAK > KOREAN PENINSULA HEATS UP OVER NORTH KOREA/NK "ICBM" TEST | US" NOKOR [Space = "UNHA-3/III"] ROCKET TEST A PRELUDE TO ICBM CAPABILITY. ARTIC > PERT = the DPRK may have 4-8 large, bulky Uranium = "simple" Nuke Bombs that thus far cannot be fitted aboard a LRBM [ICBM or IRBM] unless is firstly "miniaturized". Iff NOT Alaska [Palin-land], Hawaii, or CANUS West Coasties, then ... * TOPIX > NORTH KOREA AIMS MISSLE AT AUSTRALIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-23 22:34 |
| #3 OOOOPPSIES, forgot CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTES STALL ENERGY PRODUCTION, US SAYS. US believes the SCS Region holds 213.0Bilyuhn Barrels of Oil, or approxi 80% of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-23 02:43 |
| #2 DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > INDONESIAN FM WARNS AGZ COLD WAR-STYLE CONTAINMENT OF CHINA. A Caged Dragon is still a Caged Tiger-Bear by another name. Wehell, I've always said that, like any other aggressive wannabe Nation-State in Histoire', Rising China doesn't want to wait until Year 2080, 2100, or after to achieve its perceived "post-US" Manifest Destiny as Future World #1 - IT WANTS IT ASAP AMAP ALAP ATAP + IRREGARDLESS OF ANY DIPLOMATIC, MEDIA RHETORIC TO THE CONTRARY. We see it already in Beijing's increasingly willingness to send PLAN Warships + Armed Auxiliiaries, even also LR PLAAF Fighter-Attack AC, to disputed island areas in East China Sea + espec South China Sea. HISTORICALLY FAVORED POLITICAL "SOFT" DIPLOMACY IS LOSING SWAY TO OVERT "GUNBOAT/BATTLESHIP DIPLOMACY". Espec ala the longer Beijing fails to regain sole sovereign control of TAIWAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-23 01:14 |
| #1 Looks like Beijing has heard the news - it repor is urging Seoul to refrain or not contribute to any new Militarization of the Korean Peninsula via dev of new Missles. Read, CHIN-CONTROLLED DPRK ARMY TO STILL HOLD THE ADVANTAGE VEE THE SOUTH. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-23 00:56 |