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South Korea to Conduct Anti-WMD Exercises
South Korea intends this year to conduct an exercise on preventing WMD proliferation and to participate in a similar drill with other nations, the Yonhap News Agency reported today (see GSN, May 26, 2009).
The South Korean military exercise would be its first aimed at North Korean proliferation of unconventional weapons.
"The maritime interdiction training exercises within the region will be led by our navy and is currently planned for the latter half of this year," Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said while discussing measures Seoul plans against Pyongyang in the wake of the finding that North Korea in March destroyed a South Korean warship (see related GSN story, today).
"We will also participate in a maritime interdiction exercise outside the region hosted by Australia in September this year," Kim said.
The multilateral drill would be conducted through the Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led program to prevent the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and unconventional weapons materials on the high sea (see GSN, May 18; Yonhap News Agency, May 24).
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