Friday, November 1, 2019

U.S. Soldiers Relocate To Army’s New Hub In Korea

At nearly $11 billion, Camp Humphreys is the largest construction project in U.S. Defense Department history, most of it paid for by the South Koreans. (Army)

Army Times: U.S. soldiers relocate to Army’s new hub in Korea as North builds up weapons that can reach it

Soldiers on the Korean Peninsula are in the final stages of a relocation plan that consolidates U.S. forces at a new hub south of Seoul, in an area North Korea appears to have labeled a “fat target" for its new weapons.

Now the largest U.S. base overseas, the Army’s Camp Humphreys has been built up in the last decade in part to put distance between U.S. soldiers and the North Korean artillery sighted in on their long-time home of Yongsan Garrison in downtown Seoul.

But since the relocation plan was set in motion, North Korea has developed large caliber rockets and ballistic missiles, as well as a nuclear capability, likely capable of reaching the expanded base 40 miles south of Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

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WNU Editor: There is some truth from those who are saying that this massive U.S. base is nothing more but a big target for North Korea's missiles and long range artillery.

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