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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:57:26 PM
Stealth Fighters Deployed to Korea, China on Border
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/92682/1/.html
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23060
Ten Stealth Fighters Deployed to Korea
By donga
Jun 30, 2004, 11:17
About 10 state-of-the-art U.S. F-117 stealth bombers are being deployed to a Korean air base on May 29 and 30.
“F-117 aircraft will stay here for three or four months to learn the topography of the Korean peninsula, Japan and nearby sea areas, and will be trained to be accustomed to plans regarding the Korean peninsula made by the Korea-US Combined Forces Command,” the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday.
The F-117, which is a strategic weapon optimized for night raids and precision bombing because it is virtually invisible to radar, has come to Korea several times since the Team Sprit exercise in 1993. It, however, is the first time that more than ten stealth fighters have been deployed in South Korea at one time.
Considering the U.S. Air Force has 55 F-117s total, the number of fighters coming to Korea is considerable.
The U.S. Forces will reportedly include the deployment’s training expenses into its 11-billion-dollar strategic plan for the U.S. Forces in Korea (USFK). This raises the possibility that U.S. forces may base F-117s in South Korea on a regular basis in line with the reduction in the USFK.
The F-117s are flying directly to Korea from the U.S. mainland with the help of aerial refueling. Korean military observers analyze that by the deployment, the U.S. is showing its willingness to utilize F-117s as swift military power in the case of an emergency on the peninsula.
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North Korea and China Signed a Border Collaboration Agreement
JUNE 30, 2004 22:35
The Chinese Liberation Army Newspaper (Haebang-ilbo) reported yesterday that China and North Korea signed a Border Collaboration Agreement to ensure the safety and security of the border area of 1400 kilometers that both countries share.
This newspaper said that this agreement is “a follow-up to last year’s change of armed police force to the regular army as border guards.” However, it did not disclose the detailed contents of the agreement.
There is a good possibility that this agreement may prescribe the communication channel with North Korea and the procedures to deal with illegal border crossings as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been stationed at the North Korean-Chinese border since last September.
North Korea and China agreed on the “Extradition Convention of Chinese and North Korean Criminals” in 1960 and the “Business Convention of the Border Areas” in 1986.
However, these agreements were signed while the Chinese army was not in charge of the border area. A Hong Kong newspaper (Sungdo-ilbo) that issued the first news report regarding the Chinese Liberation Army disposition to the frontier last September, analyzed that the disposition of the regular army in the border area is “a pressure against North Korean nuclear development” and “a measure to prepare China for a possible U.S. Attack on North Korea.”
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2004070173058
See also:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/92682/1/.html
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23060
Ten Stealth Fighters Deployed to Korea
By donga
Jun 30, 2004, 11:17
About 10 state-of-the-art U.S. F-117 stealth bombers are being deployed to a Korean air base on May 29 and 30.
“F-117 aircraft will stay here for three or four months to learn the topography of the Korean peninsula, Japan and nearby sea areas, and will be trained to be accustomed to plans regarding the Korean peninsula made by the Korea-US Combined Forces Command,” the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday.
The F-117, which is a strategic weapon optimized for night raids and precision bombing because it is virtually invisible to radar, has come to Korea several times since the Team Sprit exercise in 1993. It, however, is the first time that more than ten stealth fighters have been deployed in South Korea at one time.
Considering the U.S. Air Force has 55 F-117s total, the number of fighters coming to Korea is considerable.
The U.S. Forces will reportedly include the deployment’s training expenses into its 11-billion-dollar strategic plan for the U.S. Forces in Korea (USFK). This raises the possibility that U.S. forces may base F-117s in South Korea on a regular basis in line with the reduction in the USFK.
The F-117s are flying directly to Korea from the U.S. mainland with the help of aerial refueling. Korean military observers analyze that by the deployment, the U.S. is showing its willingness to utilize F-117s as swift military power in the case of an emergency on the peninsula.
URL of this article:
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/article_001630.shtml
North Korea and China Signed a Border Collaboration Agreement
JUNE 30, 2004 22:35
The Chinese Liberation Army Newspaper (Haebang-ilbo) reported yesterday that China and North Korea signed a Border Collaboration Agreement to ensure the safety and security of the border area of 1400 kilometers that both countries share.
This newspaper said that this agreement is “a follow-up to last year’s change of armed police force to the regular army as border guards.” However, it did not disclose the detailed contents of the agreement.
There is a good possibility that this agreement may prescribe the communication channel with North Korea and the procedures to deal with illegal border crossings as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been stationed at the North Korean-Chinese border since last September.
North Korea and China agreed on the “Extradition Convention of Chinese and North Korean Criminals” in 1960 and the “Business Convention of the Border Areas” in 1986.
However, these agreements were signed while the Chinese army was not in charge of the border area. A Hong Kong newspaper (Sungdo-ilbo) that issued the first news report regarding the Chinese Liberation Army disposition to the frontier last September, analyzed that the disposition of the regular army in the border area is “a pressure against North Korean nuclear development” and “a measure to prepare China for a possible U.S. Attack on North Korea.”
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2004070173058
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