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Korea to install advanced CCTVs at key military facilities

Korea to install advanced CCTVs at key military facilities

Posted January. 17, 2017 07:03,   

Updated January. 17, 2017 07:15

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South Korea will install advanced security cameras at key military facilities such as airfields to complement surveillance soldiers. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) held a meeting with some 100 attendees including military officials of military forces, and Kocom, a local system provider, to launch the project to install surveillance systems at key military facilities and the meeting was held at the headquarter of Kocom in Gimpo city, Gyeonggi Province. Kocom is the main contractor of the first phase of the project.

This project is to install close-range cameras and infiltration detection sensors to barbed-wire fence at main facilities of the Army, Navy, Air Force as well as units under the direct control of the Ministry of Defense to modernize surveillance systems during the period from 2017 to 2024. It aims to step up the anti-infiltration capability of the military by overcoming vulnerability of the current surveillance operation that is mainly covered by soldiers.

The military will inject approximately 40 billion won on 12 units through next year for the first phase of the project. The second and third phases will be completed by 2024 and the providers for those phases will be reappointed. The defense agency said that the close-range cameras to be installed for the project as key equipment will have higher resolution and longer range of vision compared to ordinary CCTVs. Last year, the military placed advanced monitoring equipment such as CCTVs and detectors at barbed wire fence that stretches over 249 kilometers (or 155 miles) on the MDL to establish modern surveillance system for GOPs.

The reason that the military pushes forward to introduce unmanned surveillance system is because the reduction of military force. The military plans to reduce the number of soldiers from the current 625,000 (as of the end of 2016) to 522,000 by 2022. It will reduce about 8,000 soldiers this year alone.



Hyo-Ju Son hjson@donga.com