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S.Korea to Beef Up Missile Launch-Detecting Military Hardware

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With North Korea believed to be getting closer to perfecting its ballistic rocket technology and hundreds of its missiles aimed squarely at the South Seoul's defense officials are stressing the need for advanced reconnaissance.
The launch of a suspected long-range missile by North Korea this past week served to be a great learning experience for South Korea which depends largely on the United States and its high-tech hardware to detect suspicious military activity in the North.
In the weeks leading up to North Korea's purported satellite launch defense experts here in Seoul made varied assessments both promising and critical on how South Korea's early warning system for identifying airborne missiles would fare.
Although Seoul's National Defense Ministry remains tight-lipped sources close to officials there say the South Korean navy's Aegis-class destroyer that was dispatched to the East Sea to monitor North Korea's rocket launch was dead-on.
The ship called King Sejong the Great is equipped with a powerful radar that can pick up any flying object manned or unmanned within a 1‚kilometer range.
Word has it the South Korean destroyer caught wind of North Korea's rocket launch faster than the American and Japanese Aegis ships that were in the East Sea on Sunday.
But South Korea had to rely on the North American Aerospace Defense Command‚ or NORAD‚ in Colorado for tracking the projectile's flight path that reached beyond 1-thousand kilometers.
Most surveillance missions over North Korean skies are said to be done by US spy satellites and reconnaissance aircraft but South Korea is not completely blind or deaf.
South Korea has in operation at least two reconnaissance planes that can eavesdrop on airwave communications anywhere in North Korea and film troop movement as far as 100 kilometers north of the border that divides the peninsula.
South Korea is expected to put three new Aegis destroyers into service by 2012 and one is currently being prepped and tested for deployment.
Nam Ki-yung‚ Arirang News.
Reporter : kaynam@arirang.co.kr

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