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September 21, 2009

Alternatives

South Korea is set to buy Israel's Green Pine radar system. Yet another instance of former United States allies working toward bilateral defence arrangements independent of the new Caliph in the White House.

They used to call this sort of thing "realism".

Amid growing concern about North Korea's expanding ballistic missile capabilities, South Korea has said it will buy Israel's advanced Green Pine radar system, which is used with the Jewish state's principal missile killer, the Arrow-2.

The deal will be worth an estimated $200 million, one of Israel's largest weapons deals with South Korea.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 21, 2009 06:54 AM

Comments

Rumsfeld must be kicking himself. I think we can all agree the circumstances that precipitate these moves suck, but the silver lining is at least Asia is starting to think seriously about anteing up for its own defence.

Maybe if China opened up a subsidiary hegemon in Europe, the Europeans would start ponying up for their own defence, too.

Posted by: Chris Taylor at September 21, 2009 07:24 AM