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South Korea displayed its longest-range missile capable of striking all of North Korea and other sophisticated weapons at a massive military ceremony yesterday, a display of force meant to show Pyongyang that any provocation would be met with strong retaliation.
It was South Korea’s biggest Armed Forces Day ceremony in a decade, and the first since North Korea conducted its third atomic test and threatened nuclear war earlier this year.
About 11,000 troops, 190 weapons systems and other equipment and 120 aircraft were featured in the ceremony at a military airport south of Seoul. Among them were GPS-guided, Hyunmu-3 cruise missiles with a range of 1,000 kilometers. It was the first time the domestically built Hyunmu-3 had been shown in public, according to Seoul’s Defense Ministry.
President Park Geun-hye said South Korea must maintain its alliance with the US and establish missile defense and pre-emptive strike capabilities to let North Korea know “the nuclear weapons and missiles it is obsessed with are useless.”
“We must build up a strong deterrence against North Korea until it puts down its nuclear weapons program and make a right choice for its own people and peace on the Korean Peninsula,” she said as visiting US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sat nearby.
Lee Daewoo, a security analyst, said: “Today is Armed Forces Day, and (South Korea) is clearly showing that it has the capability to punish” North Korea.
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