South Korea Says North Increasing Special Forces, Deploying New Missile -- Voice of America
South Korea says North Korea is enhancing its military strength by deploying a new missile and increasing its number of light and mobile elite forces. As analysts warn of an imminent missile test by the North, officials in Seoul say Pyongyang's military remains a "serious threat."
Senior South Korean Defense Ministry official Shin Won-sik told reporters Monday North Korea has learned lessons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He says North Korea has boosted its special forces personnel by 50 percent since 2006, to 180,000 soldiers. He says, in a possible conflict, those troops would focus on infiltrating South Korea quickly, to strike at U.S. and South Korean forces from behind.
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