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South Korea Endorses 2.7 Billion Dollar Submarine Project
Seoul (AFP) May 17, 2007 South Korea has endorsed a 2.7 billion dollar project to develop its own technology to build 3,000-ton submarines, military officials said Thursday. The project was approved late Wednesday at a meeting chaired by Defence Minister Kim Jang-Soo, a ministry spokesman said. "The project, which starts this year, is aimed at acquiring independent technology for the construction of 3,000-ton submarines," Major Park Sung-Soo told AFP, adding that the first craft would be commissioned in 2018. He refused to give any other details. However, Munhwa newspaper said South Korea would build nine 3,000-ton submarines armed with cruise missiles capable of a range of 1,000 kilometres (620 miles), by 2029. South Korea has nine 1,295-ton, 209-Class subs, built by a Germany company, and a 1,800-ton craft, commissioned last year. A second 1,800-ton submarine will be launched early next month and it plans to build seven more of this class by 2018. The ministry successfully test-fired a ship-to-ground cruise missile last October.
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Train Crosses Korean DMZ As Disinformation Muddies Bank Transfer
Seoul (UPI) May 17, 2007A South Korean passenger train crossed the heavily fortified border to reach North Korea's western border city of Kaesong at noon Thursday for the first time in more than half a century. At the same time, a North Korean train arrived in South Korea's eastern border city of Jejin on another cross-border railway for a trial run of a newly restored track. |
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