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「Military Reform Plan 2020」initiative is a military modernization program, pushed by President Roh Moo-hyun’s Participatory Government, aimed at developing the country’s military to smaller but more advanced one fit with modern warfare.
The gist of the reform plan is to cut the number of troops from the current 680,000 to 500,000 by 2020 in stages and equip the military with high-tech weapons systems, as the remarkable development of information technology and precision-guided weapons systems in the 21st century has drastically changed the trend of warfare.
World powers such as the United States and France have already been pushing ahead with similar defense reform plans on their own.
Securing state-of-the-art weapons system is a key to boosting South Korean troops’ combat capability through the military modernization program.
The purpose of this paper is to study ways to further develop the reform plan, as well as review and assess 「Military Reform Plan 2020」