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Data for: “Kowloon” multi-barrel rocket launcher

SEOUL, April 25 (Xinhua correspondent DPRK), according to South Korean media reported on the 25th, South Korean military in the western waters near the North Korean paekyong and taeyonpyong and other “islands northwest of the” fixed deployed “combat capability with a large area,” the Korean multi-barrel rocket launcher system.

number of South Korean media quoted the same day the news reported that military sources, since the post-conflict Hanchao Yan Ping Island last year, South Korean military for the temporary deployment of the original multi-barrel rocket system “Kowloon” to fixed deployment “Kowloon” troops will also be incorporated into the Marine Corps.

According to reports, this is the first time in Korea, “North West Island,” the official deployment of the “Kowloon” rocket car. Yin Ping Island incident last year when Han Jun Yin Ping Island was temporarily deployed in the United States produced “Kowloon”, but leave in December. The source said the deployment of military fixed “Kowloon” is to “strengthen the northwest islands of the implementation of the Korean defense artillery and landing on a beach and other counter-attack capability.”

relevant information, “Kowloon” simultaneously launching 36 rockets, each rocket diameter of 130 mm, the range of 23-36 km, is considered “over North Korea 122 mm multiple rocket launchers and more powerful.” It is reported that the South Korean military has deployed more than a dozen islands in the northwest door “Kowloon.”

South Korean Defense Ministry press office official told Xinhua News Agency reporter said by telephone, according to the relevant provisions of the relevant reports not be confirmed. However, Yin Ping Island incident, the South Korean government has been promoting the “enhancements include taeyonpyong defense capability, including the northwest islands” of the building.

North and South Korea in the Korean peninsula on the western sea border demarcation has been divided. Yin Ping Island, including South Korea, paekyong, including “West Five Island” and between the west coast of North Korea unilaterally set a known “northern boundary” of the maritime boundary, but North Korea have not recognized. North Korea in 1999, set South Korea’s maritime military demarcation line than the “Northern Limit Line” is more southerly. Last November, North and South Korea in taeyonpyong region shelling each other.