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SEOUL — South Korea will buy European bunker-busting missiles as the United States refused to sell the same kind of weapons to the country, the state procurement agency said Wednesday.
At a meeting presided over by Defense Minister Kim Kwan-Jin, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) approved a plan to purchase air-to-ground missiles with a 500-kilometer (312.5-mile) range from the German-Swedish joint venture Taurus System.
The number of missiles and proposed budget have not been confirmed yet, it said. But Yonhap news agency said South Korea planned to buy about 170 Taurus bunker busters worth more than US $300 million in total.
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