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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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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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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$13,094,300,000.00 |
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[10th of 170]
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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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Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid
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$200,000,000.00 |
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[9th of 40]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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14,252,900 |
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[23rd of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 |
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[87th of 129]
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Navy personnel
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60,000 |
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[6th of 49]
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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 > Biological
While South Korea possesses a well-developed pharmaceutical and biotech infrastructure, there is no evidence that Seoul has an offensive biological weapon (BW) program. Citing a biological threat from North Korea, South Korea conducts defensive BW research and development, including the development of vaccines against anthrax and smallpox. South Korea ratified the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) in June 1987 and joined the Australia Group in October 1995. |
WMD > Missile
In December 1971, South Korean President Park Chung Hee issued a directive to reverse-engineer the US Nike Hercules air defense missile, a system that can also be used in a surface-to-surface role. Following several failures, South Korea's first successful test of its own version, known as "Paekkom," was conducted in September 1978. In 1979, South Korea entered into a bilateral agreement with the United States that limited South Korean ballistic missiles to a range of 180km with a 500kg payload. The Paekkom program was slashed in December 1982, but was restored in late 1983; an improved version of the Paekkom, called the "Hyonmu," was subsequently developed. South Korea joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) in March 2001; membership in the organization supersedes the missile-range agreement concluded earlier with Washington. In January 2002, South Korea announced procurement of the 300km-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) from the United States; South Korea will buy 110 ATACMS by 2004. Seoul is also developing a space launch vehicle with a plan to place a small satellite into low-earth orbit in 2005. |
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; 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.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; "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.; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; 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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