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U.S. troops stationed in South Korea’s” Patriot “missile interceptor

South Korean government said people on the 15th, Korea Institute for Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency reached an agreement to begin joint research” Korean anti-missile system. ” to address the “North Korean missile threat.”

this name unnamed government source told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reporter, the two sides signed an agreement last September, but have not yet entered formal coordination or cooperative development.

Pentagon policy of nuclear weapons and missile defense deputy assistant secretary Bradley Roberts, 14, testified in the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, said the two countries has been to examine the bilateral missile defense cooperation.

“against North Korean missile threat”

“We recently signed an agreement on the scope of responsibilities, so that correlation between the two countries have the ability to start, so that Korea can aware of any future ballistic missile defense program on the application of information and make necessary decisions. “

Yonhap reported that South Korean government joined the United States against any dominant idea of ??the global missile defense system, but intend to work with the United States develop “anti-missile system, South Korea” to resist “in the short-range North Korean ballistic missile threat.”

in accordance with Roberts’s argument, the United States intend to cooperate through bilateral ABM anti-missile system to South Korea’s global anti-missile system in the United States to play a role in the Western Pacific region. “We are strengthening the structure of regional missile defense program must rely on a series of bilateral cooperation and security interests and consensus.”

scheduled 2015 implementation

U.S. Japan’s main ally in the Western Pacific region has been fully joined the US-led global anti-missile system.

South Korean Defense Ministry said that Korea did not start formal discussions on ballistic missile defense, but South Korea has developed missiles designed to intercept North Korean “Korean anti-missile system” program, scheduled 2015 implementation.

Korea intends to deploy the three 2012 “Aegis” destroyers in the next few years to buy more enhanced version of PAC-3 type “Patriot” missiles to intercept. (Guangzhou Daily)

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