U.S. Nixes Global Hawk Sale to Korea

Posted on: Jul. 13th, 2006 || Source: english.donga.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

U.S. Nixes Global Hawk Sale to Korea

According to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, military authorities requested the U.S. to sell it four Global Hawks in 2008 at last year SCC in Hawaii in order to secure independent surveillance ability on North Korea. Korea requested this several times. However, last June, the U.S. put out a not for sale policy and have rejected Korea requests.

The U.S. is thought to have rejected the request for fear that the core technology might be leaked. Some are known to be worried that confidential information collected on North Korea using the Global Hawk might be leaked to the North.

The Global Hawk is an unmanned surveillance and intelligence aircraft, with an operation range of 3,000km, which flies a maximum of 36 hours in a high altitude distance of 20km above earth, and with its high-tech radar and optical camera, it can identify 30cm objects on the ground. It is estimated to have the scouting capacity of an intelligence satellite

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