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Air force personnel
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52,000 |
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[10th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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14 |
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[56th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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683,000 |
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[5th of 166]
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Army personnel
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548,000 |
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[3rd of 49]
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Branches
Republic of Korea Army, Navy (includes Marine Corps), Air Force |
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI). |
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Conventional arms exports
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$50,000,000.00 |
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[23rd of 40]
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Conventional arms imports
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$737,000,000.00 |
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[6th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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2.58 %
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[27th of 145]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$14,522,000,000.00 |
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[7th of 111]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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200 |
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[26th of 30]
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Iraq coalition forces > Troop strength
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3,200 |
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[3rd of 10]
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Military Capabilities > Defense Budget
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$21,050,000,000.00 |
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[4th of 10]
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Military Capabilities > Tanks
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2,330 |
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[8th of 10]
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Navy personnel
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60,000 |
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[6th of 49]
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personnel
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693,000
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[8th of 170]
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US deployment
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2% |
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US military exports
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$1,016,010.00 thousand |
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[4th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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10,303,000 |
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[8th of 137]
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WMD > Nuclear
South Korea first became interested in nuclear technology in the 1950s but did not begin construction of its first power reactor until 1970. Changes in the international security environment influenced South Korea's decision to begin a nuclear weapons program in the early 1970s. Under significant pressure from the United States, Seoul abandoned the program and signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in April 1975 before producing any fissile material. In November 1991, President Roh Tae Woo declared that South Korea would not "manufacture, possess, store, deploy, or use nuclear weapons." Two months later, North and South Korea signed the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of The Korean Peninsula. However, both sides have failed to implement its provision for a bilateral inspection regime. South Korea is an executive board member of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) and is providing most of the financial support for the construction of two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea under the Agreed Framework. Seoul has 18 nuclear power reactors in use and two more under construction. |
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SOURCES: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy; calculated on the basis of data on armed forces from IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997. Data collected from the nations concerned, unless otherwise indicated. Acronyms: Amnesty International (AI); European Council of Conscripts Organizations (ECCO); Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC); International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHFHR); National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO); Service, Peace and Justice in Latin America (SERPAJ); War Resisters International (WRI); World Council of Churches (WCC); SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm.; World Development Indicators database; "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; Wikipedia: Military Capabilities; Dr T.R. O'Connor, (05/15/04); Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); The Nuclear Threat Initiative
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Korea, South, Republic of Korea, South Korea, Taehan-min'guk, korea, republic of, korea, rep. of, korea-south, SKOREA, Korea Republic, Korean Republic, Korea (Rep.), Korea
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