Study: North Korea's army increased

More tanks and more specialized units: North Korea has developed a South Korean study found that its armed forces along the demilitarized zone. The paper Pyongyang as an "enemy" - and thus aggravated the tone toward the communist neighbor. Seoul - South Korea feels increasingly threatened by its neighbor North Korea: a study by the South Korean Defense Ministry, according to the communist country has deployed along the demilitarized zone, new tanks and increases the strength of its special forces to 200,000.


After the torpedoing of a South Korean warship and the deadly artillery attack in the past month, tensions between the two countries have grown. In the bi-yearly analysis of this fact finds expression, among other things, that North Korea is referred to there as an enemy and not, as in the report published in 2008 as a "direct and serious threat".

According to the analysis of South Korean plans to North Korea its inferiority in conventional high-tech weapons systems for its nuclear weapons program, its special forces, artillery with long range, his U-boat arm, and cyber war units to compensate. So shall North Korea has increased its special forces in the past two years to 20,000 men.

These special units will therefore run in the event of conflict, targeted killings and acts of sabotage in South Korea. The North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has made it a priority to build a military force was superior to that of the South, the authors of the South Korean analysis. However, it is not very likely that North Korea would start a war.

After all, nearly 30,000 American soldiers stationed in South Korea and the United States has repeatedly affirmed that South Korea was under its nuclear umbrella. By 2004, North Korea was in the analysis always referred to as the "main enemy". In the wake of the improving relations this wording was dropped in subsequent years.

In this year's report as one had therefore no longer fall back on that phrase, because had the other neighboring nations may be wondering, who were South Korea's other enemies, said the Ministry of Defence in Seoul. North Korea faces is only the "enemy."

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