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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

New S. Korean Naval Unit To Deploy to Somalia

KDX-2 Class DestroyerSouth Korea's Navy will send an anti-piracy unit to the Somalia littorals within weeks, its first overseas combat deployment, service officials said March 3.

The announcement followed the National Assembly's March 2 endorsement of a motion for deployment.

It also followed days of rehearsal operations by the new unit, named Cheonghae, in the waters off the southern port city of Busan.

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