South Korea will deploy Russian tanks and other combat vehicles along the heavily fortified zone separating it from communist North Korea, a foreign news agency reported on Tuesday.
Ain’t irony ironic?
The tanks are part of a US$534 million shipment of Russian arms, including military helicopters, taken by South Korea in 2002 to offset a US$1.95 billion debt owed by Moscow.
Short of hard cash, but plenty of arms laying around.
The T-80 U tanks and BMP-3 infantry combat vehicles will be arrayed along eastern and central sections of the zone by year’s end.
Think Kimmi will denounce the Ruskies for arming the South Koreans? Me neither. |