The U.S. military has been trying for 30 years to move its headquarters in South Korea out of Seoul and out of North Korean artillery range. [ North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, U.S. officials warn ]Now, the $11 billion base is beginning to look like the garrison that military planners envisaged decades ago. It has state-of-the-art communications technology and is a more “hardened” site to protect against a possible North Korean attack. “The larger the U.S. military base is, the more effectively our military can hit its targets,” a North Korean military spokesman said this month after the Eighth Army moved here, according to the North’s Korean Central News Agency. Under an agreement with the South Korean military, one U.S. Army brigade will remain at Camp Casey, right near the DMZ, after the Yongsan garrison has closed.

Source: Washington Post July 29, 2017 09:03 UTC