Seoul seeks to buy U.S. Global Hawk spy planes

Source URL: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/09/11/200609110038.asp
Posted at: http://www.air-attack/com/news/news_article/2077

South Korea is seeking to buy four U.S. unmanned spy planes but Washington is reluctant to sell them for fear of a possible leak of confidential technology, a Seoul official said yesterday.

The Defense Ministry will ask the United States later this month to sell Global Hawk surveillance aircraft which would greatly enhance the nation's intelligence-gathering capability.

"During the Security Policy Initiative session, we are planning to request the United States to permit the sale of Global Hawk," the official said requesting anonymity.

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