South Korea is close to coming to an accord with the United States that would allow the East Asian state to produce ballistic missiles with longer flight ranges, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Sunday (see GSN, Feb. 22).
A decade-old South Korean-U.S. missile technology trade agreement restricts Seoul from manufacturing any ballistic missile with a maximum range of more than 186 miles or building any ballistic missile warhead with an explosive payload in excess of 1,100 pounds.
The two allies are now discussing changing the guidelines to allow missiles with a range of no more than 497 miles -- a distance that would allow the weapons to strike anywhere in North Korea, South Korean government insiders said. Warhead weight limits would not be changed.
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