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Monday, September 24, 2012

U.S. agrees to extend Seoul’s ballistic missile range

Misile ranges |Seoul and Washington have provisionally agreed to revise their bilateral pact to allow South Korea to develop ballistic missiles with a range of up to 800 kilometers, up from the current 300 km, reports said Sunday.

The weight of the payload is expected to remain at the current 500 kg. The allies are fine-tuning details and likely to announce the result of their negotiations next month, the reports said.

Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said, “Nothing has been confirmed yet, and the negotiations are still ongoing.”

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