Straits Times: South Korean army reveals plan to develop 'Frankenmissile' targeting North Korea
SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - South Korea's military plans to develop a "Frankenmissile" to counter North Korea's escalating missile and nuclear capabilities in a bid to overwhelm the North during the initial phase of the war.
In its report for an annual parliamentary audit by the National Assembly's Defence Committee, the army said they would develop the "Hyunmoo IV" surface-to-surface missile, powerful enough to destroy North Korea's underground military facilities and command centre.
Combined with indigenous tactical surface-to-surface missiles and Hyunmoo-class intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the advanced pre-emptive strike capability would inflict "unbearable cost" on the North by neutralising its nuclear and missile sites, as well as long-range artillery units, the army said.
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Update #1: South Korea's New 'Frankenmissile' Would Take Out North Korea's Kim Jong Un and His Nuclear Weapons (Newsweek)
Update #2: South Korea developing 'Frankenmissile' to combat North Korean nuclear threat (International Business Times)
WNU Editor: The South Koreans are going to need a lot more than a few "Frankenmissiles" to stop North Korea.
1 comment:
They have more than enough to destroy north korea in any conventional conflict, quality over quantity in both equipment and training has proven true time and again once cold wars turn hot.
Same in 91, Israel would have been capable of smashing Iraq on its own, let alone the world coalition
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