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Korea signs deal to export ship-to-ship missiles to Colombia
2012-11-27 01:17
South Korea has concluded a landmark deal with Colombia to export 16 ship-to-ship missiles worth about $100 million, industry sources told The Korea Herald on Monday.
It marks the first time that South Korea will export its precision-guided missile to a foreign country.
The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency and LIG Nex 1, one of the nation’s major defense companies, signed the contract with the Colombian Defense Ministry on Monday, according to the sources.
“Colombia has four warships. Accordingly, it is expected to arm them with four missiles per battleship,” one of the sources told The Korea Herald.
“For the past three decades, Colombia has imported defense equipment mainly from France. This time, the Colombian Navy strongly insisted on purchasing Korean missiles for their high quality,” the source said.
He said the Colombian government urgently needed to reinforce its naval power due to rising territorial tension with neighboring Nicaragua.
Although the worth of the deal is relatively small, other sources said it is significant in that it may positively affect Korea’s arms sales to other Latin American countries.
South Korea has reportedly exported defense equipment worth about $2 billion to foreign countries this year. They include tanks, trainer jets, ammunitions, a logistics warship, and aircraft parts.
The U.S. Congressional Research Service recently said South Korea ranked fifth after the U.S., Russia, France and China in arms exports. It said Korea exported about $1.5 billion worth of defense equipment last year.
The missile deal with Colombia follows Korea’s contract with Peru early this month to export 20 KT-1 trainer jets over the next four years.
Defense analysts said cooperative and friendly relations between Korea and Colombia seemed to have played a key role in the successful deal.
Early this year, South Korea handed over its decommissioned 1,200-ton destroyer to Colombia for free to help boost its arms exports to the South American region. It is the first time that Seoul has given a large destroyer to a foreign country for free. In the past, the Seoul government offered to Colombia 8,000 naval gun bullets, which were not in use.
In June, South Korea also concluded a free trade agreement with Colombia, becoming the first Asian country to do so. Colombia is the only South American country that dispatched combat troops to help South Korea in the 1950-53 Korean War as part of the U.N. forces.
Two-way trade amounted to nearly $2 billion last year ― $1.6 billion in Korean exports and $381 million in imports from Colombia.
By Chung Joo-won
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; es gracioso ver como algunos sabiendo y conociendo la actitud de las FFAAA de Colombia en este sentido lo tomen como que entonces acá no hay nada más de lo que aparece en wikipedia jejejejejej 












