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One of tractors at a collective farm. Small number of them are said to be operated mostly to show them off to visitors.

'NK Rocket Launchers Pointed at S.Korea' Write 2011-05-17 18:16:16 Update 2011-05-17 18:52:57 The military is closely watching North Korea’s movements as multiple rocket launchers directed against South Korea have been observed. A military official said that the South Korean military detected on Tuesday afternoon four 240-millimeter multiple rocket launchers at a North Korean artillery position near the border pointed at the South. The position is about six kilometers away from the southern limit line in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province. The official added that the North Korean military is believed to be holding an ordinary drill, but the South Korean military...

2010/12/03 07:00 KST "N. Korea deploys more multiple-launch rockets: source SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has added more multiple-launch rockets capable of hitting the South Korean capital, a military source said Friday, amid heightened tensions over the North's fatal artillery attack on a South Korean island. The North's rockets and long-range artillery, capable of raining down shells on Seoul, which lies about 50 kilometers from the heavily armed border, are the biggest defense concern for South Korea. "

As RIA Novosti reports, the Russian Defense Ministry will hold talks during an international engineering forum near Moscow with France's Sagem Defense Securite on the possible purchase of a Sigma 30 inertial navigation system. The Engineering Technologies International Forum 2010 will be held from June 30 through July 4 in the town of Zhukovsky, 40 kilometers southeast of Moscow. Earlier this month, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin invited the French-based Sagem company (SAFRAN group), a European leader in defense and consumer electronics, for talks in Moscow. Popovkin said Russia is interested in purchasing the Sigma 30 artillery navigation and...