Text Fwd: NORTH KOREA DIDN'T SINK THE SHIP

Bruce Gagnon blog
Saturday, July 24, 2010
NORTH KOREA DIDN'T SINK THE SHIP

Los Angeles Times
Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking
: Some in South Korea dispute the official version of events: that a North Korean torpedo ripped apart the Cheonan.
By Barbara Demick and John M. Glionna
July 23, 2010

Reporting from Seoul

The way U.S. officials see it, there's little mystery behind the most notorious shipwreck in recent Korean history.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls the evidence "overwhelming" that the Cheonan, a South Korean warship that sank in March, was hit by a North Korean torpedo. Vice President Joe Biden has cited the South Korean-led panel investigating the sinking as a model of transparency.

But challenges to the official version of events are coming from an unlikely place: within South Korea.

Armed with dossiers of their own scientific studies and bolstered by conspiracy theories, critics dispute the findings announced May 20 by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, which pointed a finger at Pyongyang.

They also question why Lee made the announcement nearly two months after the ship's sinking, on the very day campaigning opened for fiercely contested local elections. Many accuse the conservative leader of using the deaths of 46 sailors to stir up anti-communist sentiment and sway the vote.

The critics, mostly but not all from the opposition, say it is unlikely that the impoverished North Korean regime could have pulled off a perfectly executed hit against a superior military power, sneaking a submarine into the area and slipping away without detection. They also wonder whether the evidence of a torpedo attack was misinterpreted, or even fabricated.

"I couldn't find the slightest sign of an explosion," said Shin Sang-chul, a former shipbuilding executive-turned-investigative journalist. "The sailors drowned to death. Their bodies were clean. We didn't even find dead fish in the sea."

Shin, who was appointed to the joint investigative panel by the opposition Democratic Party, inspected the damaged ship with other experts April 30. He was removed from the panel shortly afterward, he says, because he had voiced a contrary opinion: that the Cheonan hit ground in the shallow water off the Korean peninsula and then damaged its hull trying to get off a reef.

"It was the equivalent of a simple traffic accident at sea," Shin said.

The Defense Ministry said in a statement that Shin was removed because of "limited expertise, a lack of objectivity and scientific logic," and that he was "intentionally creating public mistrust" in the investigation.

The doubts about the Cheonan have embarrassed the United States, which will begin joint military exercises Sunday in a show of unity against North Korean aggression. On Friday, an angry North Korea warned that "there will be a physical response" to the maneuvers.

Two South Korean-born U.S. academics have joined the chorus of skepticism, holding a news conference this month in Tokyo to voice their suspicions about the "smoking gun:" a piece of torpedo propeller with a handwritten mark in blue ink reading "No. 1" in Korean.

"You could put that mark on an iPhone and claim it was manufactured in North Korea," scoffed one of the academics, Seunghun Lee, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia.

Lee called the discovery of the propeller fragment five days before the government's news conference suspicious. The salvaged part had more corrosion than would have been expected after just 50 days in the water, yet the blue writing was surprisingly clear, he said.

"The government is lying when they said this was found underwater. I think this is something that was pulled out of a warehouse of old materials to show to the press," Lee said.

South Korean politicians say they've been left in the dark about the investigation.

"We asked for very basic information: interviews with surviving sailors, communication records, the reason the ship was out there," said Choi Moon-soon, an assemblyman with the Democratic Party.

The legislature also has not been allowed to see the full report by the investigative committee, only a five-page synopsis.

"I don't know why they haven't released the report. They are trying to cover up small inconsistencies, and that has cost them credibility," said Kim Chul-woo, a former Defense Ministry official who is now an analyst with the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, a government think tank.

A military oversight body, the Board of Inspection and Audit, has accused senior naval officers of lying and concealing information.


"Military officers deliberately left out or distorted key information in their report to senior officials and the public because they wanted to avoid being held to account for being unprepared," an official of the inspection board was quoted as telling the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.

The Cheonan, a 1,200-ton corvette, sank the night of March 26 about 12 miles off North Korea. The first report issued by Yonhap, the official South Korean news agency, said the ship had been struck by a torpedo, but soon afterward the story changed to say the ship sank after being grounded on a reef.

The military repeated that version for days. The audit board found that sailors on a nearby vessel, the Sokcho, who fired off 35 shots with a 76-millimeter cannon around the time of the sinking, were instructed to say they'd been shooting at a flock of birds, even though at first they had said they'd seen a suspected submarine on radar.

On April 2, as Defense Minister Kim Tae-young was testifying before the National Assembly, a cameraman shooting over his right shoulder managed to capture an image of a handwritten note from the president's office instructing him not to talk about North Korean submarines.

Such inconsistencies and reversals have fueled the suspicions of government critics. U.S. officials, however, say the panel's conclusion is irrefutable.

Rear Adm. Thomas J. Eccles, the senior U.S. representative on the panel, said investigators considered all possibilities: a grounding, an internal explosion, a collision with a mine. But they quickly concluded that the boat was sunk by a bubble-jet torpedo, which exploded underneath the vessel and didn't leave the usual signs of an explosion, he said.

"The pattern of damage was exactly aligned with that kind of weapon," Eccles said in a telephone interview. "Torpedoes these days are designed to drive underneath the target and explode. They use the energy of their explosion to make a bubble that expands and contracts. It is designed to break the back of the ship."

Pyongyang, meanwhile, denies involvement in the sinking and calls the accusation against it a fabrication.

South Koreans themselves appear to be confused: Polls show that more than 20% of the public doesn't believe North Korea sank the Cheonan.

Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's top envoy for North Korean affairs, says the criticism from within has made it difficult to get China and Russia on board to punish Pyongyang for the attack.

"They say, 'But even in your own country, many people don't believe the result,' " Wi said.

Text Fwd: S.Korea Successfully Tests Ground-to-Air Missile

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KBS
S.Korea Successfully Tests Ground-to-Air Missile
2010-07-24, 12:18:52

A senior government official says the South Korea has successfully developed and tested a cutting-edge ground-to-air missile.

The official said Saturday that during a test conducted last Saturday, the missile, dubbed the “Cheolmae-2,” accurately shot down an object that was flying at a speed of Mach one. The interception occurred some 12 kilometers over the Yellow Sea and 40 kilometers off the western coast.

The Cheolmae-2 is launched from the ground vertically and takes out its targets through the use of multipurpose tracking radar.

Military authorities plan to further work on the “Cheolmae-2” so that it will be capable of shooting down fighter jets and ballistic missiles.

• Reported by KBS WORLD Radio
• Contact the KBS News: englishweb@kbs.co.kr

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[단독] 첨단 지대공 미사일 ‘철매2’ 개발
July 23, 2010
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<앵커 멘트> 우리나라가 미국 패트리어트에 버금가는 첨단 지대공 미사일 개발에 성공한 것으로 확인됐습니다. 미사일 잡는 미사일 '철매 2'의 성능 확인해보시죠. 최재현 기자입니다. <리포트> 초음속 전투기를 지대공 미사일이 격추시킵니다. 초음속으로 날아오는 비행체를 공중에서 요격하는 것은 고도의 정밀성과 최첨단 기술을 요구하는 현대 군사기술의 결정제입니다. 그런데 우리나라가 미국이 자랑하는 패트리어트에 전혀 뒤지지 않는 국산 지대공 미사일을 개발해 최근 시험 발사에 성공했다고 정부 고위 관계자가 전했습니다. '철매 2'로 이름 붙여진 이 지대공 미사일은 지난 17일, 해안에서 40킬로미터 정도 떨어진 서해 12킬로미터 상공에서 약 마하 1의 속도로 날아오는 비행체를 정확하게 격추시켰다고 이 관계자는 밝혔습니다. 1998년 지대공 미사일 개발을 위한 개념 연구를 시작한 지 약 12년만에 거둔 값진 결실입니다. 철매 2는 다기능레이더와 사격통제소 유도탄발사대 등으로 구성되며, 지상에서 수직으로 발사된 뒤 표적을 추적해 탐지하는 다기능 레이더의 유도를 받아 목표물을 맞춥니다. '철매 2' 개발 성공은 국산 정밀 유도무기 개발의 획기적인 촉매제가 될 것으로 보입니다. KBS 뉴스 최재현입니다.

KBS

미사일도 요격…한국형 MD 구축 청신호

July 23, 2010

<앵커 멘트>

'철매 2'는 조금만 개선하면 전투기뿐만 아니라 미사일도 요격할 수 있다고 합니다.

저고도에서 적의 미사일을 요격하는 한국형 미사일 방어망 구축에 청신호가 켜졌습니다.

곽희섭 기자입니다.

<리포트>

미국이 자랑하는 미사일 잡는 미사일 패트리어트.

이 미사일도 처음에는 전투기 격추용 지대공 미사일에서 출발했습니다.

이후 성능을 개선하며 미사일 요격 미사일로 거듭났습니다.

이번에 시험 발사에 성공한 국산 지대공 미사일 '철매 2'의 성능은 이미 패트리어트 최신형인 'PAC3'에 버금간다는 게 군 당국의 판단입니다.

<인터뷰> 김 규(예비역 공군 소장):"대공 유도탄을 개발해서 전력화한다는 게 극히 드문일입니다. 왜냐하면 상당한 고기술을 요구하기 때문에. 한국에서 그걸 했다는 것은 대단한 성공입니다"

이에 따라 고도 50킬로미터 이하의 저고도에서 적의 탄도 미사일을 격추시킬수 있는 요격용 미사일 개발에도 속도가 붙을 전망입니다.

북한에서 남한을 겨냥하고 있는 '스커드 미사일'은 약 600기입니다.

우리군은 해상에서 미사일을 추적할 수 있는 이지스함을 보유한데 이어 공중 조기 경보기를 곧 도입할 예정입니다.

여기에 국산 지대공 미사일이 개발됨으로써 이른바 한국형 미사일 방어체제 구축에 청신호가 켜지게 됐습니다.

KBS 뉴스 곽희섭입니다.

Text Fwd: Japan To Send Military Officers To U.S.-South Korean Maneuvers

* Text informed from Stop NATO on July 23, 2010

Xinhua News Agency
July 24, 2010

Japan to send SDF to U.S.-S Korea joint drill: report

TOKYO: Japan is in the final process of having the Self-Defense Forces join a military drill to be conducted by the United States and South Korea, Kyodo News reported Friday, quoting unspecified government sources as saying.

The Japanese Defense Ministry is considering sending several officers from the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) to the joint exercise set for Sunday through Wednesday in the Sea of Japan, the sources said. Japan is unlikely to dispatch any vessel to the drill.

"The government has judged that sending the SDF as an observer would not violate Japan's pacifist Constitution", the report said.

South Korea and the United States have agreed to stage a series of joint naval and air drills starting next week, which the White House said are "defensive in nature" and are designed to send a " signal of deterrence" to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

China on Wednesday expressed concern over the military exercises, urging relevant parties to exercise calm and to refrain from acts that might escalate tension in the region.

The first joint exercise involving the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington will come July 25 in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, and the two allies plan to stage more drills down the road in both the Yellow Sea and the East Sea.
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Text Fwd: U.S. Strengthens Asia Military Links Against China

* Text informed by Stop NATO on July 23, 2010

Bloomberg News
July 22, 2010

U.S. Strengthens Asia Military Links Amid Concerns Over China
By Daniel Ten Kate

-The South China Sea, stretching from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan, is an “area of growing concern,” Gates said in Singapore last month. Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP Plc are among companies that have halted projects in the sea because of China’s objections, according to U.S. government agencies.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Asia’s biggest security forum in Hanoi today as the U.S. strengthened defense ties across a region where China’s expanding military reach has triggered unease.

Clinton yesterday discussed military cooperation with Vietnam and Defense Secretary Robert Gates restored ties with Indonesia’s special forces after a 12-year gap. A day earlier, the two officials affirmed U.S. support for South Korea in Seoul ahead of joint naval drills that China criticized.
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China cut off high-level military exchanges with the U.S. in January over arms sales to Taiwan and has declined to join the Obama administration in blaming North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March that killed 46 sailors.

Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said two days ago that the inability to speak directly with Chinese military leaders was a cause for concern.

Curiousity to Concern

“I’ve moved from being curious about what they’re doing to being concerned about what they’re doing,” Mullen told U.S. troops in South Korea. “I see a fairly significant investment in high-end equipment, satellites, ships, anti-ship missiles, high-end aircraft.”

China’s military poses no threat to any nation, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said June 10.

The U.S. regards Indonesia and Vietnam as increasingly important allies in the region, the Pentagon said in a February report. Gates met in Jakarta with his counterpart Purnomo Yusgiantoro and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The U.S. will begin a “measured and gradual” relationship with the elite unit known as Kopassus, which is already involved in United Nations peacekeeping operations, Gates said yesterday....

South China Sea

Indonesia and Vietnam border the South China Sea, which contains sea corridors vital to world trade, and where U.S. officials say China has become more assertive.

The Paracel and Spratly islands, groups of rocky outcrops with unproven oil and gas deposits that are claimed in part or in full by China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei, the Philippines and Malaysia, have been at the center of tensions.

Estimates of oil and gas reserves vary, with some Chinese studies suggesting the waters contain more oil than Iran and more natural gas than Saudi Arabia, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. China told some international oil and gas companies to halt exploration in offshore areas that Vietnam considers part of its territory, a U.S. official told Congress last year.

The South China Sea, stretching from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan, is an “area of growing concern,” Gates said in Singapore last month. Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP Plc are among companies that have halted projects in the sea because of China’s objections, according to U.S. government agencies.

Vietnam

Gates and Clinton stressed that relationships with Vietnam and Indonesia were improving. The decision to restore links with Indonesian forces was possible due to Indonesia’s progress in professionalizing the military since the fall of the dictator Suharto, Gates said.

Vietnam is on the verge of becoming a “great nation” and the U.S. wants to take its relationship to a “new level,” Clinton told reporters in Hanoi. She met Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem, who said yesterday they discussed defense links and were “leaving the past behind.”

In contrast, Clinton said her presence with Gates in Seoul and the new sanctions they announced sought to send a clear deterrent to North Korea after the warship sinking that an international panel blamed on a torpedo from one of the North’s mini-submarines.

The USS George Washington and three destroyers called into South Korean ports the same day in a show of U.S. commitment to the region. The ships arrived ahead of planned military maneuvers off South Korea’s east that start July 25.

China’s Military

China has beefed up its military over the past decade, enhancing the capability to deter U.S. ships and enforce territorial claims off its shores....

China doesn’t see U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province, as “normal,” General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of general staff of the People’s Liberation Army, said in Singapore last month.
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Text Fwd: DPRK says U.S.-South Korean military drills violate sovereignty, vow

* Text informed from Stop NATO on July 23, 2010

File photo taken on Sept. 25, 2008 shows the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington in Yokosuga, Japan.

South Korea and the United States have agreed to stage a series of joint naval and air drills starting next week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said Tuesday. The first joint exercise involving the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington will come July 25 in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula. (Xinhua/Ren Zhenglai)

Xinhua

The joint military drill by the U.S. and South Korean army "is against the sovereignty of the DPRK ( Democratic People's Republic of Korea)", a DPRK spokesman told reporters Friday at a regional security forum in Hanoi.

"It is a threat to the Korean peninsula and the region of Asia as a whole, and the DPRK's position is there will be physical response to the threat imposed by the United States militarily," Ri Tong Il, spokesman for the DPRK delegation at the ASEAN Regional Forum, added.

Following the so-called "two plus two" security talks, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a joint press conference Wednesday that the U.S. will introduce new "country- specific" sanctions against the DPRK's procurement of nuclear materials.

The U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who arrived on Monday for advance talks, finalized details of joint military drills with the defense minister Kim Tae-young.

The first joint exercise involving the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington will come on July 25 in waters off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, and is meant to deliver a "clear message" to the DPRK that provocations must be stopped, the ministers have said.

The UN Security Council on July 9 issued a statement over " Cheonan" warship case, unanimously deploring the attack on the South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors in March. The Council, however, stopped short of blaming the DPRK. Pyongyang has denied any involvement in the incident.

Meanwhile, China on Wednesday expressed concern over military exercises to be held by the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States in the Japan Sea.

Source: Xinhua

Video Fwd: [Bruce Gagnon blog] Tom Sturtevant from Maine Veterans for Peace

* Bruce Gagnon blog
Friday, July 23, 2010
ONE OF MY FAVORITE MAINERS

'The latest edition of my public access TV show This Issue features Tom Sturtevant from Maine Veterans for Peace. Tom was a charter member when VFP was founded in 1985 here in Maine.

He discusses his experiences during the Korean War and also gives information about the upcoming 25th anniversary national convention that will be held in Portland, Maine on August 25-29.

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http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/07/text-fwd-veterans-of-korean-war-call.html
Text Fwd: Veterans of the Korean War Call for a Real Peace Treaty
(Statement on June 25, 2010)

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2010/07/international-petition-three.html
Saturday, July 10, 2010
[Three International Petitions] to End the Korean war and peace treaty (or peace resolution)

Photo Fwd: Environmental activists begin sit-in at Four Rivers sites

Hankyoreh
Environmental activists begin sit-in at Four Rivers sites
:The Lee administration has forged ahead with the project during the rainy season despite widespread opposition and safety concerns
By Kim Ki-seong


　'Two activists of environmental civic organizations occupy a 30-meter-high crane at the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project construction site in South Gyeongsang Province, July 22. The activists staged an occupation to protest the Lee Myung-bak administration’s unpopular Four Major Rivers Restoration Project.' 　

Excerpt

Calling for an end to the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, major leaders from local chapters of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (KFEM) carried out a surprise occupation Thursday morning of the Ipo Weir site on the Han River and the Haman Weir site on the Nakdong River.

Text Fwd: [famoksaiyanfriends] Island Residents Form Human Chain to Protect Pagat

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* Video source: Guam News (same as the below link)

* Text sent from Martha Duenas on July 24, 2010

KUAM News
Islanders unite to protect Pagat July 23, 2010
by Lannie Walker

Guam - Hoping to protect Pagat from the Department of Defense plans to use the area as a firing and training range for the U.S. Marine Corps, concerned island residents gathered along the Back Road to Andersen Air Force Base, uniting hands to form a human chain - a show of solidarity that the ancient Chamorro village of Pagat must be protected.

Joe Quinata is from the Guam Historic Preservation Trust and is hoping to build an alliance with the DoD in the preservation and protection of Pagat. "And if the DoD wants to be part of this alliance, then we're happy," he told KUAM News. "If they don't, then we have another step to take." Asked what that next step is, he responded without hesitation: litigation.

Pagat, a historic site that dates back to 700 A.D., was officially placed on the National Trust For Historic Preservation's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places List. Anthea Hartig is the organization's regional director, and said about today's rally, "If you think of it contextually in terms of advocacy from grassroots, spending 20-30 hours poring over the Final Environmental Impact Statement, effort of this magnitude it takes all of us together individual and as a whole to make a difference. So, we're really glad to be here."

It wasn't just residents of Guam that gathered at Pagat, but Jeannae Flores and Hermon Farahi traveled from Saipan to show their support and are filming a documentary called "Weaving Solidarity: Taking A Look At The Military Buildup from An Indigenous Perspective." "We're here to pretty much document all of it and also me personally I want to be here to preserve my culture history and my Chamorro people," said Flores.

Farahi added, "It seems like Pagat represents lot of tradition for Chamorro people. the problem being that lots of lands have been given up since acquisition in Spanish-American War all the way to the present, and I think people really feel enough is enough and this sacred land for a lot of people there's burial sites here a lot of the suruhanus the healers come here to find inspiration and it just means a lot for local people and the fact that they want to create firing range here has brought a lot of resentment toward the military and what they want to accomplish.

"And it seems like there's some tensions now with the local people and what the military wants to accomplish. We're here to support and document the Chamorro people as they engage in the struggle."

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Text Fwd: US, European firms vie for presidential jet deal in Korea

Korea Times
07-23-2010
US, European firms vie for presidential jet deal in Korea



By Jung Sung-ki
Staff reporter

Excerpts:

The competition between U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and its archrival Airbus, a company of the European Aeronautic Defence & Space (EADS) for South Korea’s presidential jet procurement, is moving into high gear.

Seoul’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration released a request for proposals in May for its “VC-X” program to buy a presidential plane. The rival companies plan to file their proposals with the agency by Aug. 3.

[...]

The National Assembly approved 14.2 billion won ($12.3 million) last December for the VC-X program after years of debate on the need for the VIP cargo jet.

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* The below comes from the original site

미국 보잉사와 에어버스사가 대통령 전용기 구매를 위해 경쟁을 하고 있다.

보잉은 747-8모델을 내 놓았고 에어버스는 A340 모델을 내 놓았다. 보잉 747-8 승객용 버전은 467명의 승객을 태울 수 있고 15,000 km 이상을 날아 갈 수 있다. A340 승객용 버전은 261~380명을 태울 수 있고 12,400~16,600km 를 날아 갈 수 있다.

지난 12월 국회는 VC-X프로그램에 142억 원을 승인했다. 현재 대통령 전용기는 1985년 도입된 보잉 737을 연초에 대여했으나 이는 41명 밖에 태우지 못하고 3,400km밖에 가질 못해 동북아 밖으로 나가려면 다시 주유해야 하는 불편함이 있다.

이번 계약이 끝나면 대통령 전용기는 2013년 들여오게 된다.
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[Jeju Naval Base][Translation] Memorandum of Understanding Related to the Construction of the Civilian-Military Complex Tour Beauty Harbor

* The below is the arbitrary translation of the Memorandum of Understanding(MOU). The original Korean can be seen HERE.
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Jeju Press, April 27, 2009

해군 기지 기 본 협 약 서(MOU)내용
Contents of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
on [the Jeju] Naval base

민․군복합형 관광미항 건설과 관련한
기 본 협 약 서

Memorandum of Understanding
Related to the Construction of the Civilian-Military Complex Tour
Beauty Harbor

정부와 제주특별자치도는 민․군복합형 관광미항 건설과 지역발전사업을 추진함에 있어 신뢰와 협력을 바탕으로 아래의 사항을 성실히 이행할 것을 협약한다.

In driving forward the construction of the civilian-military complex tour beauty harbor, the [ROK] government and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Island agree with each other to faithfully carry out the below items based on trust and cooperation.

아 래

The below

제1조(목적) 본 기본협약은 제주특별자치도(이하 ‘제주자치도’라 한다)에 추진중인 제주해군기지를 최대 15만톤 규모의 크루즈 선박 2척이 동시에 접안할 수 있는 민ㆍ군복합형 관광미항(이하 ‘민ㆍ군 복합항’이라 한다)으로 건설하고, 이와 관련된 지역발전사업을 추진함에 있어 국방부장관, 국토해양부장관 그리고 제주특별자치도지사간에 상호 이행해 나갈 사항들을 협약하여 정하는 것을 목적으로 한다.

Article 1(Purpose) This MOU is purposed to construct the Jeju naval base being driven in the Jeju Special Self-Governing Island (called ‘the Jeju Self-Governing Island’ from the following) as the civilian-military complex tour beauty harbor’ (called the ‘civilian-military complex harbor’ from the following) in which the two cruise ships of which each of them would be the 150,000 ton at biggest, can come alongside the pier at the same time; and to define the items to be carried out with the mutual agreement by the Minister of National Defense, Minister of the Land, Transportation and Maritime affairs and the Governor of the Jeju Special Self-Governing Island, in driving the regional development business related to the [Jeju naval base].


제2조(지역발전사업 지원) 정부는 민․군복합항 건설사업이 제주자치도의 지역발전에 기여할 수 있도록 ｢민․군복합항 지역종합발전계획 수립 용역｣ 결과 및 제주자치도의 의견을 바탕으로 제안된 지역발전사업이 효과적으로 추진될 수 있도록 적극 지원한다.

Article 2 (Support for the regional development business) The government positively support the regional development business suggested based on the result of the ‘service for the establishment of the synthesized development plan on the civilian-military complex region’ and on the opinion of the Jeju Self-Governing Island so that the civilian-military construction business can contribute to the regional development of the Jeju Self-Governing Island.

제3조(지원협의체 구성ㆍ운영) ① 국무총리실은 민․군복합항 건설사업과 부대사업 및 제2조의 지역발전사업을 원활히 추진하기 위하여 국방부, 국토해양부 등 관계부처와 제주자치도가 참여하는「민․군복합항 건설지원협의회(이하 ‘협의회’라 한다)」를 구성하여 운영한다. ② 제1항의 협의회를 지원하기 위하여 국무총리실에서 주재하고 관계자가 참여하는 「실무지원협의회」를 둔다.

Article 3 (Composition & Operation of the Support body) (1) The Office of the Prime Minister composes and operates the ‘consultation committee for the support on the construction of the civilian-military complex harbor’ (‘consultation committee’ from the following) joined by the related Ministries such as the Ministry of national Defense and Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, so that [the committee] can smoothly drive the construction business of the civilian-military complex harbor, its attached businesses and the regional development business [mentioned] in the article 2. (2) The ‘consultation committee for the practical support,’ superintended by the Office of the Prime Minister and joined by the related personnel will be formed to support the consulation committee in the article 1.

제4조(크루즈항 시설) 국방부장관과 국토해양부장관은 민․군복합항 건설을 추진함에 있어 15만톤 규모의 크루즈 선박 2척이 동시에 접안할 수 있는 항만시설과 부대시설을 함께 설치할 수 있도록 지원함으로써 지역경제 활성화에 기여하도록 노력한다.

Article 4. (Cruise Harbor facility) In driving for the construction of the civilian-military complex harbor, the Ministers of the National Defense and Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs make an effort to contribute to revitalize the regional economy by supporting to install both of the harbor & bay facility and the attached facilities so that the two cruise ships of which the each is 150,000 ton size can come alongside the pier at the same time.

제5조 (알뜨르 비행장 부지의 사용 등) ① 국방부장 관은 국방부 소관의 서귀포시 대정읍 소재 속칭 알뜨르 비행장 부지를 제주자치도 지역발전을 위하여 법적절차에 따라 제주자치도와의 협의를 거쳐 제주자치도가 사용할 수 있도록 한다. ② 국방부장 관은 공군 남부탐색구조부대에 전투기 배치계획이 없음을 확인한다.

Article 5 (Use of the Alttre Airfield etc.) (1) The Minister of National Defense allows the Jeju Self-Governing Island, through the discussion with the Jeju Self-Governing Island, to use the area of the popularly known as the Alttre airfield that is located in the Daejung-eup, City of Seogwipo and in the jurisdiction of the City of the Ministry of Defense, for the regional development of the Jeju Self-Governing Island, according to the legal procedures. (2) The Ministry of National Defense confirms that he has no plan to deploy the fighter airplanes in the Namboo (* meaning ‘southern’) Search & Rescue troop unit of the air force

제6조(보상) 국방부장관은 민․군복합항 건설에 따른 토지매입, 지장물 및 어업권 보상 등 손실보상을 추진함에 있어 관계법령에 따라 현실성 있는 평가를 실시하고 정당한 보상을 하여야 한다.

Article 6 (Compensation) In driving for the loss compensation such as in the purchase of land and in the ground facilities & fishing industry right, following the construction of the civilian-military complex beauty harbor, the Ministry of National Defense should execute the realistic evaluation and righteous compensation, according to the related laws and ordinances.

제7조(지역건설업체 참여) 국방부장관 은 민․군복합항 건설 및 부대사업을 추진함에 있어 제주 지역건설업체가 최대한 참여할 수 있도록 한다.

Article 7(Participation by the local construction companies) The Minister of National Defense let the Local construction companies in the Jeju region join at most in driving for the construction of the civilian-military complex harbor and its affiliated business.

제8조(권리행사의 제한 배제) 국방부장 관은 민․군복합항을 건설함에 있어 군사기지 및 군사시설보호법 제4조에도 불구하고 육상의 민․군복합항 울타리 경계와 해상의 군항방파제 밖의 지역에 대하여 군사기지 및 군사시설보호구역으로 지정하지 아니하며, 통행․고도․영농․어로․건축 등 주민의 생존권과 재산권 행사를 제약하는 행위를 하지 아니한다.

Article 8 (Exclusion of the limitation in the exercise of rights) In constructing the civilian-military complex harbor, the Minister of National Defense, despite the article 4 in the law on the protection of the military base and facility, shall not designate the outside areas of the fence border in the civilian-military complex harbor on the ground and of the seawall in the military harbor on the sea, as the protection areas for the military base and military facilities; and shall not do the activities that condition the exercises of the villagers’ survival rights such as passage, altitude, farming, fishing & architecture and their property rights.

제9조(편의시설의 사용․운영 및 주민 우선고용 등) ① 국방부장관은 민․군복합항 건설과 관련하여 설치예정인 각종 복합 휴양시설 및 편의시설을 지역주민이 함께 사용할 수 있도록 한다.
② 국방부장관은 제1항의 휴양시설 및 편의시설에 직원을 고용하는 경우 지역주민을 우선적으로 고려하고, 편의시설의 운영을 민간에 위탁할시 지역주민에게 운영권을 우선적으로 부여한다.

Article 9 (Use & management of the convenient facilities and employment of the villagers in priority) (1) The Minister of National Defense makes the various kinds of the installation-planned complex resort facilities and convenient facilities, related to the construction of the civilian-military complex harbor, can be used by the villagers, also. (2) In case of the employment of the workers in resort and convenience facility, as mentioned in the clause 1, the Ministry of National Defense considers priority to the local residents; and in case of commission to the civilian for the management of the convenience facility, the minister gives priority to the local residents regarding the management right of them

제10조 (협약서 내용 변경 및 세부협약의 체결) ① 본 기본협약에 명시된 사항은 협약 당사자간의 합의에 의하지 아니하고는 어느 일방이 임의로 변경할 수 없다. ② 본 기본협약에 명시된 사항은 사업의 원활한 추진을 위하여 사안별로 협약 당사자간의 세부협약을 체결한다.

Article 10 (Amendment on the content of the MOU and conclusion of the detailed MOU) (1)The items that was elucidated in this MOU cannot be freely amended by any side except for by all persons’ mutual agreement. (2) For the items stated in this MOU, the persons of the agreement conclude the detailed agreement for the smooth driving forward the business.

본 기본협약서는 원본 3부를 작성하여 당사자가 날인하고 각 1부씩 보관한다. 끝.

This MOU is written in the 3 copies of original, with each person’s seal, and each person keeps 1 copy of them.


2009년 4월 27일
April 27, 2009

국방부장관 이 상 희
Lee Sang-Hee,
Minister of National Defense

국토해양부장관 정 종 환
Chung Jong-Hwan
, Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs


제주특별자치도지사 김태 환
Kim Tae-Hwan, Jeju Special Self-Governing Island Governor