Protection Minister Lee Jong-sup instantly briefed President Yoon Suk-yeol on the general route and priorities of protection coverage and plans to implement main duties Friday morning on the presidential workplace in Yongsan, central Seoul.
The Protection Ministry will search to strengthen army capabilities to counter omnidirectional threats posed by North Korea to guard the folks and set up “peace by energy,” it stated Friday in a report submitted to the president.
Three-axis missile protection
The completion of a domestically developed three-axis missile protection system — consisting of the Kill Chain, the Korea Air and Missile Protection (KAMD) and the Korea Huge Punishment and Retaliation (KMPR) — was proposed as the most important activity.
Seoul will search to safe Kill Chain preemptive strike capabilities by hastening the deployment of army reconnaissance satellites and buying extra F-35 stealth fighter jets from america.
The army will improve capabilities to detect missiles throughout the Korean Peninsula and construct a multi-layered missile protection system, together with the event of an L-SAM system that may intercept missiles at altitudes of 40-70 kilometers.
South Korea has not but independently developed a top-tier layered protection defend such because the US Terminal Excessive Altitude Space Protection (THAAD) system.
Huge Punishment and Retaliation
The ministry added that it will reinforce its capabilities to hold out the Korea Huge Punishment and Retaliation technique.
The Protection Ministry plans to extend the variety of “land, sea and air-based high-powered, ultra-precise missiles that may goal your complete North Korean area and additional strengthen the penetration and strike capabilities of particular operations forces.”
It additionally laid out a plan to counter threats posed by North Korea’s long-range artillery, which may attain the Seoul metropolitan space.
Seoul will enhance early detection of a attainable artillery assaults, reinforce counter-fire forces and develop a long-range artillery interception system, the Protection Ministry stated, however it didn’t present the timeframe.
Throughout his marketing campaign, Yoon pledged to precipitate the deployment of Low Altitude Missile Protection, which is analogous to Israel’s “Iron Dome” interceptor, within the capital and densely populated areas by 2026.
Moreover, the South Korean army will improve the variety of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance property and reinforce their operation to instantly reply in case of imminent assaults.
The Protection Ministry additionally stated South Korea goals to expeditiously core army capabilities and its means to answer North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, that are required for the switch of wartime operational management (OPCON).
Launching counter-missile working teams
The Protection Ministry stated it should strengthen the South Korea-US alliance’s complete system to answer North Korea’s missile and nuclear threats. For example, South Korea and the US will newly launch the Counter Missile Working Group (CMWG) underneath the Deterrence Technique Committee and co-research on missile defenses.
The ministry additionally goals to develop the system to implement the alliance’s “tailor-made deterrence technique” and set up procedures to deploy US strategic property. The reactivation of the vice ministerial-level Prolonged Deterrence Technique and Session Group (EDSCG) can be proposed as the important thing activity to reinforce the viability of the US prolonged deterrence.
One other main aim is to “enormously develop the South Korea-US alliance and deepen and increase protection cooperation” by numerous channels, together with the resumption of large-scale mixed army workout routines which have been suspended within the aftermath of the primary US-North Korea summit in June 2018.
Stepping up subject coaching workout routines
The Protection Ministry stated it will “basically reinforce the South Korea-US mixed protection posture by normalizing mixed workout routines and coaching which have been canceled, postponed, decreased or adjusted for a substantial time frame.”
The South Korean army plans to renew regiment-level and larger-scale mixed subject coaching workout routines (FTXs) reminiscent of army workout routines with US plane provider strike teams and amphibious touchdown drills.
South Korea will “intensively conduct numerous sorts of mixed subject coaching workout routines” in reference to annual bilateral drills which have been carried out twice a 12 months.
South Korea’s military, navy and air forces are scheduled to stage 11 FTXs with the US and mixed forces between August and September this 12 months.
The South Korean army will additional increase mixed subject coaching workout routines from the subsequent 12 months, the Protection Ministry stated. The South Korean and US Forces plan to conduct a complete of 21 FTXs within the first half of subsequent 12 months.
As a part of these efforts, South Korea and america have modified the title of mixed army workout routines to Freedom Shied in a bid to “inherit the custom of the South Korea-US alliance and re-establish the system to conduct theater-level mixed army workout routines.”
“The defend represents the South Korea-US alliance’s sturdy deterrence towards North Korea and underscores the legitimacy of mixed army workout routines that are defensive in nature,” based on South Korea’s Protection Ministry.
South Korea and the US deserted the title of the “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” — which had been used from 2008 to 2018 — within the aftermath of the primary US-North Korea Singapore Summit in June 2018.
Massive-scale, theater-level subject coaching workout routines such because the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian have been completely suspended, according to then-US President Donald Trump’s dedication on the summit. As an alternative, the South Korean and US army have carried out small-scale army workout routines at battalion stage and under all through the 5 years.
(dagyumji@heraldcorp.com)
