South Korea boosts spending, ISR and retaliatory measures
South Korea has created new units – including an ISR formation and a special forces decapitation brigade – in response to the threat from its belligerent neighbour north of the Military Demarcation Line, as well as hiking defence spending for 2018.
On 1 December the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) stood up its Air Intelligence Wing (AIW) ahead of delivery of the first two of four RQ-4B Block 30 Global Hawk aircraft in 2018.The AIW will be responsible for keeping a beady eye on North Korean military activities.
Col Kang Yoon-seok, commander of the AIW, said, ‘The main
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