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South Korea to send 350 troops to Afghanistan
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December 8, 2009, Tuesday
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SOUTH Korea plans to send 350 troops to Afghanistan next year to support a group of civilian engineers helping with reconstruction, officials in Seoul said today.
The deployment needs to be approved by parliament, but should make it through as President Lee Myung-bak's conservative Grand National Party holds a majority.
South Korea pulled about 200 military engineers and medics from Afghanistan after 23 South Korean church workers were kidnapped and two killed by the Taliban forces there in 2007.
Officials have said the new deployment will not be allowed to engage in combat operations, but troops will likely have arms including tanks and helicopters.
The first dispatch of a mission that is planned to last two to three years is scheduled for around July 1 to the relatively safe Parwan region.
The deployment needs to be approved by parliament, but should make it through as President Lee Myung-bak's conservative Grand National Party holds a majority.
South Korea pulled about 200 military engineers and medics from Afghanistan after 23 South Korean church workers were kidnapped and two killed by the Taliban forces there in 2007.
Officials have said the new deployment will not be allowed to engage in combat operations, but troops will likely have arms including tanks and helicopters.
The first dispatch of a mission that is planned to last two to three years is scheduled for around July 1 to the relatively safe Parwan region.
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