Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Lee Sun-jin has inspected the military's combat readiness posture along the inter-Korean maritime border, aboard an Aegis-equipped destroyer.
"If the enemy provokes, retaliate severely with speed and accuracy," Lee instructed a commander of an Air Force flight team during a combat simulation performed inside the Sejong the Great destroyer in the Yellow Sea near the Northern Limit Line.
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South Korean Air Force performs an air drill across the coastal city of Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, on Dec. 31. (Yonhap) |
Equipped with an Aegis combat system, the destroyer could detect and track up to 1,000 targets within the radius of 1,000 kilometers at a time. It could also connect the commanders of the Army, Navy, Air Force and overseas-based units, enabling the top military decision maker to command all branches of the military simultaneously.
It was the military's first-ever combat training commanded by an JCS chairman aboard a warship.
The training was conducted on Tuesday and embargoed till Friday.
Convening a video conference with military commanders, Lee also instructed them to "maintain water-tight readiness posture."
As part of the training, the Navy fired four anti-ballistic intercept missiles from the warship in a show of force against North Korea ahead of the new year.
The Yellow Sea side of the NLL has often been a point of inter-Korean military tensions with Pyongyang's shelling attack on the border island of Yeonpyeong in 2010 killing four South Koreans. (Yonhap)
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