Posted on 10/29/2013 6:38:18 PM PDT by TexGrill
It was South Korea's biggest Armed Forces Day ceremony in a decade, and the first since North Korea conducted its third atomic test and threatened nuclear war earlier this year.
About 11,000 troops, 190 weapons systems and other equipment and 120 aircraft were featured at Tuesday's ceremony at a military airport just south of Seoul. Among them were GPS-guided, Hyunmu-3 cruise missiles with a range of 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) that South Korea developed in recent years. It was the first time the domestically built Hyunmu-3 was publicly shown, according to Seoul's Defense Ministry.
President Park Geun-hye said in a speech at the ceremony that South Korea must maintain its strong alliance with the US and establish missile defence and pre-emptive strike capabilities to let North Korea know "the nuclear weapons and missiles it is obsessed with are useless."
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We should be helping SK defend itself and help wean them off of US support, at least most of it.
We could always keep a naval-air base in the far south as a base, like the ones we keep in Japan.
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