South Korea to build missile defence control centre

South Korea’s military is planning to build within this year an Air and Missile Defense Cell, or a command and control center, which will enable it to target North Korean ballistic missiles. A military official said today that once the AMD-cell radars, which send out alarms in the case of a North Korean missile launch, are fielded in mid-November, the control center would be completed based on the radars by mid-December, South Korea's (KBS WORLD) website reported today. The official explained the system works by the radars picking up on a missile launch from North Korea, which would then immediately send orders to a military base capable of intercepting the missile. The missiles the AMD-cell would be able to detect are Scud-B and Scud-C missiles with a range of 300 to 500 kilometers, and Nodong missiles with a range of up to one-thousand kilometers. The envisioned KAMD missile defense system is different from the U.S. military’s missile defense (MD) system which detects and intercepts long-range North Korean missiles such as Daepodong-2 missiles. The KAMD system is aimed at targeting ballistic missiles flying at an altitude of 100 kilometers.