Kim Min-seok, a research fellow at the Korea Defense and Security Forum (KODEF), said: “The Korean defense companies will likely improve the missile range by reducing the warhead weight.”With the DAPA’s final approval, it would also be possible for South Korea to export missiles with a range of 900 km, similar to the KN-23 North Korea has exported to Russia, he said.
The Office of the President of the Republic of Korea earlier this month held a National Security Council (NSC) meeting and approved the missile range extension, military industry sources said on Tuesday.“There were requests (from some Middle Eastern countries) to address the issue of the short range of missiles in (Korean) multiple rocket launchers,” said one of the sources.
REMOVAL OF US-ROK BALLISTIC MISSILE GUIDELINESSouth Korea can now develop ballistic missiles with a range of thousands of kilometers capable of reaching targets far beyond the Korean Peninsula, following the US approval to lift a 42-year-old restriction on its ally’s missile development program in 2021.
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