Korea MND News: Korea completes PRT's Charika base in Afghanistan

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Korea completes PRT's Charika base in Afghanistan
Jan. 25, 2011

Korea has completed construction of a base in Afghanistan for its provincial reconstruction team workers and troops organized to protect them, said Joint Chiefs of Staff on Jan. 24.

The completion will allow some 320 Korean troops of "Ashena unit," which had been stationed at U.S. air base in Bagram since June last year, to move to the base in the city of Charika in the northern province of Parwan, according to JCS.
Ashena means friend or colleague in Afghanistan.

The base in Charika, which is 60 kilometers north of Afghan's capital Kabul, is equipped with surveillance tools such as high-powered closed circuit televisions and thermal observation device. It has also strengthened its security by installing Hesco barriers and barbed-wire fence.

Korean provincial reconstruction team members will be in service by dividing them to Charika and Bagram bases. Only aviation unit is going to be based in Bagram and carry out its mission by flying between two bases.

In addition, a police training center and a hospital are planned to be constructed under the supervision of Korea International Cooperation Agency.