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Three bid for Seoul's system to detect NKorean missiles

Japan arrests trader for breaching NKorea export ban
Japanese police Tuesday arrested a businessman for allegedly trying to export to North Korea two large vehicles which could be put to military use in its missile programme, police officials said. Tei Rinsai -- a 50-year-old trading house president of unknown nationality also using the Japanese name Tadao Morita -- allegedly tried to export two tanker trucks to the isolated country via South Korea. Japan bans the unlicensed export to North Korea and some other countries of products that could be used to manufacture weapons of mass destructions. Local media reports said the two vehicles, second-hand tanker trucks, could be used to carry missiles and fuel and also serve as launching pads. The police spokesman said: "Through exporting (the goods) first to South Korea, which is outside the export ban, he intended to export them ultimately to North Korea, an act which is seen as a threat to international peace." Japan has intensified its pressure on North Korea since Pyongyang tested missiles and a nuclear bomb in 2006. Earlier this month, the North threatened to conduct further nuclear and missile tests unless the United Nations Security Council apologises for condemning its rocket launch on April 5. Pyongyang said it put a peaceful satellite into orbit, but Japan, South Korea and the United States said it staged a disguised missile test.
by Staff Writers
 Seoul (AFP) May 19, 2009
 South Korea said Tuesday three foreign firms were bidding for an early warning project to detect North Korean ballistic missiles.

Elta Group of Israel, a Netherlands-based unit of France's Thales Group and Raytheon of the United States submitted bids by the May 18 deadline, the Defence Acquisition Programme Administration said in a statement.

The winner would be announced by the end of the year, the state-run agency said without elaborating.

The Ballistic Missile Early Warning Systems could cost up to 80 million dollars, Yonhap news agency said. Its advanced radar systems aim to detect ballistic missiles launched as far as 500 kilometres (310 miles) away.

Seoul hopes to deploy the radar by 2012 in time for the completion of its missile defence system against the North, it said.

South Korea is increasingly concerned about North Korea's ballistic missiles.

On April 5 the communist state fired a long-range rocket in what was seen overseas as a test of a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile. Pyongyang claims it put a satellite into orbit.

Apart from long-range missiles, North Korea has some 800 shorter-range Scuds and Rodongs which could target all of South Korea and parts of Japan.

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