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Sun, March 26, 2023 | 20:53
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US brings PAC-3 unit to Korea
주일미군 패트리엇(PAC-3) 부대, 훈련차 한국 이동
Posted : 2016-07-22 17:00
Updated : 2016-07-22 17:13
Jun Ji-hye
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By Jun Ji-hye

A U.S. Patriot missile battery in Japan has been brought to South Korea for a joint exercise amid growing concerns about additional provocations from North Korea, an official of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said, Friday.

The Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 interceptor unit of the U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ), stationed at the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, arrived in Busan on July 13 and is now participating in a drill with South Korean military in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province.

The Patriot unit is made up of 120 troops, with a launch vehicle and radar.

It is the first time a Japan-based U.S. Patriot battery has been sent to South Korea.

"The PAC-3 unit is currently training with South Korean troops," the USFK official told reporters. "The unit will return to Japan after completing the training scheduled to last two weeks."

The training was to exercise dispatching the USFJ's air defense weapons as quickly as possible in the event of an incident on the Korean Peninsula.

The detachment comes as North has been ratcheting up military tension by claiming that it carried out a drill "under the simulated conditions of making preemptive strikes at ports and airfields in the operational theater in South Korea where the U.S. imperialists' nuclear war hardware is to be hurled."

The North made the remark Wednesday, a day after firing three short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea.

In photos released by the North on its state-run newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, the impact areas of the missiles were waters around the port cities of Busan and Ulsan, indicating that the regime exercised striking those cities.

The missile launch came amid increasing signs that Pyongyang may conduct a fifth nuclear test soon ― increased activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear site has been detected by the intelligence authorities of South Korea and the United States.

Officials here noted that the North is likely to make provocations in the coming weeks in an apparent show of protest against the planned deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery on Korean soil.

Allies announced July 13 that the advanced anti-missile system will be deployed in Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, next year.

At the time of the announcement, officials said the Patriot air defense system will make up for the weak points of the THAAD whose range is not enough to protect Seoul.

The THAAD interceptor has an effective range of 200 kilometers, while Seongju is 210 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

Seoul is working to upgrade its PAC-2 systems deployed at units in the capital and its surrounding area to the PAC-3 version by 2022, officials said.

The combat-proven PAC-3 missile is a high-velocity hit-to-kill interceptor that destroys incoming ballistic and cruise missiles, and hostile aircraft by direct impact. The PAC-2 uses a blast-fragmentation proximity warhead that sends debris from an exploded missile into the target.


주일미군 패트리엇(PAC-3) 부대, 훈련차 한국 이동

북한의 핵과 미사일 위협이 가중되는 상황에서 주일미군에 배치된 패트리엇(PAC-3) 요격미사일 1개 포대가 최근 훈련차 한국으로 전개됐다.

주한미군 관계자는 22일 '주일미군에 배치된 패트리엇 미사일 1개 포대가 지난 13일 부산항을 통해 한국에 도착해 현재 전북 군산에서 한국군과 훈련하고 있다'고 말했다.

이 관계자는 '주일미군 기지에 배치된 방공전력을 유사시 신속하게 수송선을 통해 남한으로 투입하는 데 중점을 둔 훈련의 일환'이라며 '2주로 예정된 훈련을 마치면 패트리엇 미사일 포대는 다시 일본으로 돌아간다'고 전했다. 

주한 미 8군은 인터넷 홈 페이지를 통해 부산항에 도착한 패트리엇 장비 하역 사진 등을 게재했다.

주일미군의 패트리엇 부대가 바다를 통해 한국에 전개된 것은 처음이다. 북한이 최근 잇달아 유사시 미군 증원전력이 투입되는 남한의 항구와 비행장들을 선제타격하는 훈련을 했다고 밝힌 것과 연관돼 주목된다.

북한은 지난 19일 스커드와 노동미사일로 추정되는 탄도미사일 3발을 발사했고 발사 다음 날 '이번 발사훈련은 미제의 핵전쟁장비들이 투입되는 남조선 작전지대안의 항구, 비행장들을 선제타격하는 것을 모의한 것'이라고 밝혔다.

당시 북한 노동신문에 공개된 사진에는 '전략군화력타격계획'이라는 제목의 대형 한반도 지도에 부산과 울산 주변 바다에 탄착지점이 표시돼 있어 이 지역을 겨냥했음을 드러냈다. (연합뉴스)
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