Security top priority as S Korea deploys in Iraq
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The South Korean commander says protecting his troops is at the top of his agenda. Major-General Hwang Eui-don has met the Kurdish Prime Minister, Nechirvan Barzani to discuss security and planned projects for his peacekeeping and reconstruction force.
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South Korea&#39;s frontline military units are on their highest state of alert after discovering a hole in a fence that separates it from North Korea, defence officials said.
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The United States is expanding its military force in Iraq to the highest level of the war &#151; even higher than during the initial invasion in March 2003 &#151; in order to bolster security in advance of next month's national elections.
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South Korea has tightened security at home and overseas after a new threat by the al-Qaida terrorist network against countries supporting the US-led coalition in Iraq.
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A retired US army general heads to Iraq to conduct a security review as the country prepares for elections.
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South Korea and the United States will hold a joint military exercise next month to prepare for Seoul's plans to retake wartime command of its forces, the U.S. military said Friday.
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About 2,800 South Korean troops have completed deployment to northern Iraq to become the third largest coalition partner after the United States and Britain, officials said Wednesday.
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SEOUL - President Roh Moo Hyun made a surprise visit Wednesday to South Korean troops stationed in northern Iraq, the Blue House presidential office announced.
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A retired US army general begins an assessment of security in Iraq at the request of the Pentagon.
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Our position is: More US troops are needed to serve until the election, but Iraq must eventually handle its own security. The Pentagon&#39;s announcement that deployments are being extended for more than 10,000
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SEOUL : South Korea&#39;s defense ministry said it had completed the deployment of around 2,800 troops on a relief and rehabilitation mission to northern Iraq.
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Japan is to tighten security at its military camp in Iraq after a rocket shell landed inside the facility, the latest sign of a worsening security situation that is fuelling demands in Japan that the troops be pulled out.
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Iraq is ready to take over security in the entire southern province of Basra from the British military, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told visiting Defence Secretary Des Browne on Wednesday.
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South Korea&#39;s soldiers were on a highest state of alert on the border of the demilitarized zone where a soldier found part of the barbed-wire fence cut, South Korea&#39;s Defense Ministry said.
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SOUTH Korea&#39;s military was on alert along the Demilitarised Zone frontier with North Korea yesterday after a night patrol found a hole cut in the border fence.
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South Korea is stepping up security along  the Demilitarized Zone frontier with North Korea after a hole  was found cut in a border fence, the South Korean Defense  Ministry said on Tuesday.
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South Korea's parliament on Friday approved extending the mission of its 3,600 troops in Iraq for another year.