Seoul, South Korea – South Korea is developing new weapons and armor for imitating Israel’s Iron Dome, rebuilding its weapons on a war-torn island.
The South Korean government announced last month that it wants to spend about $ 2.5bn on research and development and implement the system by 2035.
The 1950-53 Korean War ended with a military operation, not a peace treaty, and since then North and South have developed troops and weapons in the DMZ that separates the two countries. North Korea has also recently developed nuclear weapons and missile launchers, although the security they see in South Korea will not be able to protect their weapons, it could point to weapons and shortened missiles.
North Korea has about 10,000 weapons, including weapons, dug north of the DMZ, less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the greater Seoul region and its 25 million inhabitants, half of South Korea’s population.
South Korea’s new system will focus on protecting South Korea’s capital, base, and major military and security equipment from a possible bomb blast in North Korea, using missiles.
But nuclear weapons in South Korea will have to do better than Israeli machinery.
Colonel Suh Yong-won, spokesman for the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) in June, said: “The Iron Dome responds to rockets fired by militants, such as Hamas and the occasional unarmed military force.” “Some areas of the system will be similar, but our architecture is designed to eliminate long-range weapons from North Korea, which require advanced expertise based on existing security.”
That is why he said, the South Korean system is expected to spend more money than the Israeli system.
Military analysts also say Israel needs to shoot fewer projects than South Korea would need. Hamas fired about 4,300 stones in 10 days in the most recent war in Gaza. But with the use of sophisticated missiles, machine guns, and rocket launchers, North Korea could launch nearly 16,000 demonstrations an hour, according to the latest news. reports and the Hankyoreh newspaper.
“It’s a very difficult task,” said Ankit Panda, senior at Stanton’s Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
‘No choice’
However, experts appear to be confident that South Korea will develop North Korean nuclear weapons and ammunition. Question and price. In many countries, national security and especially military spending oppose employment scrutiny.
“There is no choice in South Korea, it cannot be helped,” said Jo Dong Joon, director of the Center for North Korea Study at Seoul National University. “South Korea is concerned that North Korea may fearfully launch long-range weapons.”
The impetus for implementing the plan came in 2010, when North Korea He covered the border of Yeonpyeong and killed four people.
According to the Hankyoreh newspaper, following the Yeonpyeong incident, South Korean officials considered launching the Iron Dome system, but eventually found it inappropriate. Their goal at the time was to destroy the oncoming fire source.
For this reason, South Korea last year sent new Korean weapons to Surface Missiles, KTSSM, so-called “weapons” with a capacity of 100km (62 miles) and designed to destroy northern weapons, says Jo, who is also a nuclear specialist. . But South Korean KTSSMs have taken some time to destroy and destroy the flames – weapons and armor – that could give Pyongyang enough time to strike and destroy key areas in Seoul.
South Korea’s new “Iron Dome” machine will protect itself from this threat, while the Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile defense system has already been deployed to protect against North Korean missiles.
Nuclear growth
In defense of northern weapons and rockets near the DMZ, some experts believe that fewer deficiencies will be curtailed, and it could not be a major war on northern nuclear weapons.
“The escalator in North Korea has now come a long way – to nuclear weapons,” explained Jo, adding that South Korea must respond primarily to the threat of gunfire, or pose a serious risk of further escalation.
The development of nuclear weapons in North Korea poses more challenges than their nuclear arsenals. The dangers of their exploitation intensify Pyongyang, putting Seoul at risk in spite of its advanced weapons, as well as cooperation with the United States.
“The presence of nuclear weapons in North Korea is one of the reasons why governments are so unstable. Asintha technological security changes slightly,” said Go Myung-hyun, a researcher at the Asan Institute for Policy Study.
But anti-missile protection and anti-artillery are seen as a cheap operation, combining years of research and development, to make it possible. Self-defense tools can be paid for and send more arrows to deal with security, and they can be cheaper.
“It will always be cheaper for any attacker, whether North Korea, or Hamas, to get the most dangerous weapons, than the defenders will continue to have access to self-defense weapons,” said Panda’s Carnegie. “What South Korea will use … pays for elsewhere, in which South Korea can use weapons.”
At the same time, the proliferation of South Korean weapons could benefit greatly from this work through further research, development and deployment in South Korea.
“Machines like these can be just as beautiful as imported goods,” Panda said.
Negotiation
However, some strongly oppose the program, saying that the amount of money they spend in South Korea – which is close to $ 50bn a year – is driving competition between Korea.
Park Jung-eun, secretary-general of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, a well-known organization in South Korea, says: “Dangerous weapons are dangerous, but South Korean weapons also threaten North Korea.”
South Korea is upgrading its armor in a number of areas, including repairing and destroying high-profile naval destroyers, its weapons, rocket and armor, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is for generations ahead of the North Kora weapons system . This inconsistency in the common power that drives Pyongyang alternatives.
“The proliferation of weapons is preventing the North from making alternatives … looking at unarmed weapons such as nuclear weapons and destructive weapons,” Park said.
South Korea’s democratic leadership is costing more than its savings, says Park, who has worked peacefully for 15 years. Democrats want to avoid criticism for being soft and reducing military forces uninterested in peace experiments.
There is also a need for corporate partnerships to accept such an expensive project.
“This could be a way to feed security companies, even Samsung or Hanwha, into military security,” Park said.
One of the criticisms of the Iron Dome is that it prevents the Israeli government from embracing the long-standing root of the problem in negotiations.
Park also looks similar in South Korea.
“Instead of the Iron Dome, I think we should focus more on negotiations.”
