Washington, Seoul agree SKorean missiles' range increases to 800km

[Tihamah]

SEOUL, September 23 (Itar-Tass) — Washington and Seoul have reached a preliminary agreement to increase the range of South Korean ballistic missiles to 800 kilometres, informed sources reported on Sunday.

The agreement permits South Korea to increase the range of developing ballistic missiles from the current 300 to 800 kilometres, thus enabling it to hit main goals in almost the entire territory of the DPRK. At the same time, the permission for weight of warheads will remain unchanged at 500 kilograms. Thus, the longer-range ballistic missiles will be able to "cover" the entire territory of North Korea if they are launched from the area South Korean city of Daejeon.

On the background of North Korea's development of missile arsenal, official Seoul twice - in 1979 and 2001 - tried to revise its missile pact with the United States. Now, North Korean missiles are able to hit anywhere in the South, the Yonhap news agency notes in this regard.

An official announcement of the new agreement on missile weapons between the United States and the Republic of Korea is due in October of the current year, where defence ministers of the two allied countries will have an annual meeting.


ITAR-TASS : Washington, Seoul agree SKorean missiles' range increases to 800km

This shows that the US power is declining and they can't keep spending a lot of money on military, thats why the US want its satellite states to develop better militaries to fend off China, Obama in his last visit to Japan asked them to increase military spending, it is obvious the US will reduce its military sooner or later.

 

[Korean]

Modern day warfare is mostly based on air power. The Chinese can produce and replace their unlimited fighter losses as they wish while the rest can only buy and stockpile a limited # of fighters.

Before that happens the Chinese economy collapses due to the ROK-US naval blockade. This isn't 1950s anymore, China cannot survive without importing oil, food, and other natural resources.

Once the Korean run out of fighter inventory

There will be at least 1,000 ROK-US combined tactical jets on the ROK side. No war scenario presumes the Chinese control of air, and this is basically impossible after the KL-SAM(250 km radius) goes operational in 2018, which turns most of the Yellow Sea and half of North Korea into no fly zone for the PLAAF.

the Chinese can start sending in their bombers to destroy any ground forces of Korea like the U.S did in Iraq.

This shows how clueless you are.

There is no need for the Chinese to rush in 1.5 million ground troops

With no air cover and no naval support, the only option left for the PLA is the human wave attack warfare.

Korea does not have the capabilities to produce fighters or the natural resources to do so.

No one replaces a lost jet with a new jet order during the war; you start with what you have, then only replenish after the war. China itself has become externally dependent and cannot survive with a naval blockade and trade/financial transaction bans.

Without fighters to replace to defend the air, Korea has absolutely no chance of killing even one single PLA soldier

Killing the first 1 million PLA troops is not that hard, with 500K rounds of rockets and tens of thousands of artillery and howitzers.

Killing more PLA troops after that becomes hard as the ROK runs out of ammos and cannot be resupplied fast enough.

 

[asianamerican]

SEOUL, September 23 (Itar-Tass) — Washington and Seoul have reached a preliminary agreement to increase the range of South Korean ballistic missiles to 800 kilometres, informed sources reported on Sunday.

The agreement permits South Korea to increase the range of developing ballistic missiles from the current 300 to 800 kilometres, thus enabling it to hit main goals in almost the entire territory of the DPRK. At the same time, the permission for weight of warheads will remain unchanged at 500 kilograms. Thus, the longer-range ballistic missiles will be able to "cover" the entire territory of North Korea if they are launched from the area South Korean city of Daejeon.

On the background of North Korea's development of missile arsenal, official Seoul twice - in 1979 and 2001 - tried to revise its missile pact with the United States. Now, North Korean missiles are able to hit anywhere in the South, the Yonhap news agency notes in this regard.

An official announcement of the new agreement on missile weapons between the United States and the Republic of Korea is due in October of the current year, where defence ministers of the two allied countries will have an annual meeting.


ITAR-TASS : Washington, Seoul agree SKorean missiles' range increases to 800km

Korea is not a sovereign country. US GI loves to be stationed in Korea. Endless Korean ***** for the taken, that's the benefit of being a master.

Korean are so proud yet they can't been bark without their white master. It is sad that I get called Gook, an expletive for Korean, because I am Asian in America.

 

[ViXuyen]

Before that happens the Chinese economy collapses due to the ROK-US naval blockade. This isn't 1950s anymore, China cannot survive without importing oil, food, and other natural resources.

What are you smoking? Korea talking about blockading China? Do you even know where Korea is geographically situated? Look on the map, Korea needs to import oil from the Mid East so the transport route is a long journey for any Korean ship that survives through the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and down to South China Sea.

China can easily choke/blockade Korea with ease and it would be a miracle if any Korean ships can even break out of the Yellow Sea. Korea can't survive more than a few weeks of "total war" without oil import due to blockage from China while China's long sea coast make it impossible for any Korean ship to bypass (let along blockading China)

Look at the export per capita of Korea vs China and it does not take a genius to see which economy depends more on export. A naval blockade from China means a total collapse of the entire Korean economy


There will be at least 1,000 ROK-US combined tactical jets on the ROK side. No war scenario presumes the Chinese control of air, and this is basically impossible after the KL-SAM(250 km radius) goes operational in 2018, which turns most of the Yellow Sea and half of North Korea into no fly zone for the PLAAF.

Korea only has 240 F-16,F-15 (Not 1000 ). 200 something aircrafts can easily be lost in a total war with China. Korea does not have the industrial technology to produce and replenish those losses while China can easily. Show me where does Korea produce a complete package of an equivalent of Typhoon, Rafael, J-10,J-11, Sukhoi etc?

Korean KL-SAM is just another joint venture with the Russian where the Russian withhold the core technologies. Again, just another import items like F-16, PAC3 when the Koreans run out, there is no replenishment while the Chinese have plenty of S-300 that will keep the Korean airforce grounded and they also have produced with own version of long/med/short ranged SAM


This shows how clueless you are.

Only delusional Korean would not see that they are hopeless in a total war vs China


With no air cover and no naval support, the only option left for the PLA is the human wave attack warfare.

China can produce fighters, submarines to replenish their losses while Korea can't. Korea will be bombed to stone age in a total war with China


No one replaces a lost jet with a new jet order during the war; you start with what you have, then only replenish after the war. China itself has become externally dependent and cannot survive with a naval blockade and trade/financial transaction bans.

China can produce fighter jets, submarines anytime that they want but Korean can't; this is pure fact that translate into Korean will not be able to win a full scaled war against China


Killing the first 1 million PLA troops is not that hard, with 500K rounds of rockets and tens of thousands of artillery and howitzers.

Nonsense as the PLAAF would pound the Korean ground forces to pieces due to Korea not having air control
Killing more PLA troops after that becomes hard as the ROK runs out of ammos and cannot be resupplied fast enough.

Again, pure nonsense as the Korean can't even have the hardware to control the air.

For any objective person, one can't deny that Korean have zero chance of winning a total war against China due to the inability of the Korean to produce fighter aircrafts....not to mention submarines.

 

[Korean]

Korea talking about blockading China?

Yes, Shanghai and up. This is what the Jeju Naval base is for, this base can support the operation of two carrier battle groups and is only 12 hours away from Shanghai.

Do you even know where Korea is geographically situated? Look on the map, Korea needs to import oil from the Mid East so the transport route is a long journey for any Korean ship that survives through the Yellow Sea

Large oil tankers do not enter the Yellow Sea, they dock at eastern side of Korea.

China can easily choke/blockade Korea with ease

You got it backward.

The US-Korea blockade the Yellow Sea in the wartime, not China. This is the case because China doesn't control the sea.

Korea's oil shipping route cannot be blocked by China as seen on the map, if the longer route is taken.

China's shipping route from Shanghai and up on the other hand could be blocked, and the naval blockade of the Yellow Sea is the part of the war plan. It is in the war manual.

 

[Korean]

Terms of final agreement is out.

- 800 km(Tokyo, Beijing) missiles can have 500 kg warheads.
- 550 km(North Korea) missiles can have 1 ton warheads.
- Recon and Combat Drones can have payloads upto 2.5 tons.
- No solid fuel satellite launchers allowed, only liquid fuel launchers.

 

[JohnyD]

why the heck SK needs a permission from the US to increase the range of its missile. This is ridiculous and at least should not have been published to respect SKs self-respect! This news is passing a very wrong message that SK is not just dependent of defence tech from the US but it really needs to seek permission from the US if it has to increase the range of its missiles to ensure better self-defence…

someone pls wrong me..

 

[Korean]

why the heck SK needs a permission from the US to increase the range of its missile.

There is no place to test the ballistic missiles in Korea, especially long range ones, and must be tested in the US. That's the American leverage.

For cruise missiles and drones, there is no range limitation because these could be tested in Korea by circling around, so the US has no leverage, except for the supersonic ones that cannot steer easily.(Supersonic cruise missiles are not range restricted, so the ROK is investing heavily in the supersonic missiles).

 

[ahfatzia]

^^^ Who said the world is fair. When you're an ally or buy arms from or even use certain high tech components of the US, you're subjected to her rules and whims. In the cases of Japan and Korea, who also need protects from the might one, their relationships are 'master to slaves', to put it bluntly.

 

[JohnyD]

There is no place to test the ballistic missiles in Korea, especially long range ones, and must be tested in the US. That's the American leverage.

For cruise missiles and drones, there is no range limitation because these could be tested in Korea by circling around, so the US has no leverage, except for the supersonic ones that cannot steer easily.(Supersonic cruise missiles are not range restricted, so the ROK is investing heavily in the supersonic missiles).

Thanks, can you pls tell why There is no place to test the ballistic missiles in Korea,? is it bcoz of its size and does it mean to test a longer range BM you need to have a larger dimensional area?

wondering, if all ICBM holders have area larger than the range of its ICBM...

 

[Korean]

^^^ Who said the world is fair. When you're an ally or buy arms from or even use certain high tech components of the US, you're subjected to her rules and whims.

Korean missiles don't contain US component, as the US was opposed to Korea long range missile development programs of all kinds.

Korean missiles actually base their roots in Soviet/Russian missiles in layout and propulsion, but the guidance electronics is local because Korea has a world-class electronics industry.

 

[Korean]

Thanks, can you pls tell why There is no place to test the ballistic missiles in Korea,?

There is no 900 km of straight flight path unpopulated. You cannot test ballistic missiles whose flight path is over populated area, when something could go wrong.

So it's the Nevada missile test range for ROK ballistic missiles.

 

[JohnyD]

There is no 900 km of straight flight path unpopulated. You cannot test ballistic missiles whose flight path is over populated area, when something could go wrong.

So it's the Nevada missile test range for ROK ballistic missiles.

good luck with ur test..

 

[ahfatzia]

Korean missiles don't contain US component, as the US was opposed to Korea long range missile development programs of all kinds.

Korean missiles actually base their roots in Soviet/Russian missiles in layout and propulsion, but the guidance electronics is local because Korea has a world-class electronics industry.

Even if I give you the benefit of doubt for assuming Korean missiles contain no US components without proofs, you're still under the USA motherly protections. That alone leaves no doubt who's the boss here.

 

[Korean]

Even if I give you the benefit of doubt for assuming Korean missiles contain no US components without proofs, you're still under the USA motherly protections. That alone leaves no doubt who's the boss here.

LOL, this coming from the dude whose country's fighter jets are not based in his home country, but in the US due to lack of air space.

Oh, I forgot, you are a falseflag mainlander and you wouldn't know that.