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The Republic of Korea Navy is building a light aircraft carrier and plans to be a blue-water navy by 2020...if the North doesn't invade before then.
 
The South Korean Armed Forces is modeled after the way the US military worked between the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947:National Security Act of 1947|National Security Act of 1947]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/:Goldwater<!-- E280%93Nichols_ActE2%80%93Nichols Act|Goldwater-Nichols Act]] of 1986; this means that while the chain of command runs from the President through the Minister of National Defense, advised by career military Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Joint Chiefs are also in the operational chain of command of their respective branches, rather than serving as advisors with command running directly from the civilian officials to combatant commands. This is justified by the nature of South Korea's defense needs--there's only one theater of operations to speak of, really. Also borrowed from the YanksWithTanks[[Yanks With Tanks]] is the presence of a quasi-independent Marine Corps theoretically subordinate to the Navy but really an elite combined-arms fourth branch of the military. -->
 
The South Korean government can fine and imprison any able-bodied men who shirk conscription; the service is usually 26 to 32 months. Women can join voluntarily.
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South Korea has mandatory military conscription - every Korean male, with very few exceptions, serves about 2 years in the military after graduation.
 
The ROKA currently fields the K1 tank, which is as good as the M1 Abrams tank according to its creators, and the K200 and K21 series armored personnel carriers. Bizarrely enough, they also have 35 [[Reds Withwith Rockets|T-80]] [[Tricolours With Rusting Rockets|tanks]] that were given as part of a payment of debts the Russians owed them.
 
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* The [[Dale Brown]] novel ''Battle Born'', involving a Second Korean War.
* Play a large role in the Larry Bond novel ''Red Phoenix'', where an ROK liaison officer is one of the two survivors of one of the opening attacks in a Second Korean War.
* An episode of ''[[The Unit (TV)|The Unit]]'' is set on a South Korean submarine.
* Every so often, ROK military personnel show up in, well, ''[[MASH]]''.
* ROK forces are a thorn in your side in the Soviet Campaign of ''[[Command and Conquer]] Red Alert 2'', conducting a raid on the Russian Far East and screwing up your invasion of Hawaii. They also get quite possibly the most awesome special unit on the Allied side in multiplayer/skirmish mode: the Black Eagle, a better version of the usual Allied Harrier fighter plane.
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