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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 [
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
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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 ''[[
* 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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