10 : 23 AM - 07/01/2013
Seoul: Jan. 7 -- (BNA) The South Korean Army announced the formation of a military unit comprising 280 soldiers as part of UN Peacekeeping Task Force in South Sudan in order to assist in reconstruction efforts in the newly independent African country.The South Korean Army stated that it would dispatch the Korean Peacekeeping Unit comprising mainly engineering and medical corps by late next March to serve in South Sudan until the end of the year 2013. According to the Korean Army statement, the unit will be station in "Bor" town about 170 kilometers away from South Sudan's Capital City, Juba.
The Korean army unit is being sent in response to a request made by the UN Secretary-general that was approved by the South Korean Parliament last September 2012. South Korean had sent its military units as part of UN Peacekeeping Forces to Somalia, the Western Sahara, Angola, East Timor, Lebanon and Haiti.
(IY)
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