N Korea 'boosting special forces'

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;n-korea-boosting-special-forces&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"South Korean protesters denounce the government's policy over North Korea in Seoul &lpar;AP&rpar;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;min-n-korea-boosting-special-forces&period;jpg" alt&equals;"South Korean protesters denounce the government's policy over North Korea in Seoul &lpar;AP&rpar;"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>North Korea has faster&comma; more powerful tanks prowling the world&&num;8217&semi;s most heavily armed border and 200&comma;000 special forces poised to carry out assassinations and cause havoc in South Korea&comma; a major military review has said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Seoul&&num;8217&semi;s Defence Ministry report&comma; released every two years&comma; signals that the North&&num;8217&semi;s military threat has expanded&period; It comes as President Lee Myung-bak&&num;8217&semi;s administration scrambles to respond to criticism that it was unprepared for a November 23 North Korean artillery attack on a front-line island that killed four people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That attack&comma; along with an alleged North Korean torpedoing of a warship in March&comma; has prompted South Korea to define the North in the defence document as its &&num;8220&semi;enemy&&num;8221&semi;&comma; a stronger description than in 2008 when the North was only called a &&num;8220&semi;direct and serious threat&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>South Korean defence documents stopped referring to North Korea as &&num;8220&semi;the main enemy&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; a constant subject of North Korean criticism &&num;8211&semi; in 2004 amid then-warming ties&period; The North&&num;8217&semi;s state media reacted angrily to the new reference&comma; calling it a &&num;8220&semi;grave provocation&&num;8221&semi; that could trigger war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new document says the North intends to rely on its nuclear programme&comma; special forces&comma; long-range artillery&comma; submarines and cyber warfare forces as a counterweight to South Korea&&num;8217&semi;s high-tech conventional military&period; North Korea has 200&comma;000 special operations forces&comma; the report says&comma; an increase from 180&comma;000 in the ministry&&num;8217&semi;s last assessment in 2008&period; Those forces are aimed at carrying out assassinations and infiltrating and disrupting key facilities in South Korea&comma; it said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The North&&num;8217&semi;s army deploys many of its 13&comma;600 long-range artillery guns along the Demilitarised Zone&comma; ready to launch surprise artillery barrages on Seoul and its adjacent areas&comma; according to the document&period; The country also has developed a new kind of battle tank with better firepower and mobility than previous ones&comma; and the modern tanks have been deployed near the border&comma; it said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The North&&num;8217&semi;s authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il has made a priority of trying to build military power superior to the South&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; and its forces &&num;8220&semi;are posing a serious threat to South Korea&&num;8217&semi;s military&&num;8221&semi;&comma; the document said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; despite the North&&num;8217&semi;s asymmetrical forces&comma; analysts say there is little likelihood that North Korea would launch an all-out war against South Korea&comma; whose military is bolstered by 28&comma;500 American troops in the country&period; The US has repeatedly promised to keep South Korea under its nuclear umbrella&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The document reconfirmed that the US will deploy an additional 690&comma;000 troops&comma; 160 navy ships and 2&comma;000 military aircraft in the event of a war on the peninsula&period; South Korea has about 650&comma;000 troops of its own&comma; while the North is thought to have 1&period;2 million soldiers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice&comma; not a peace treaty&period; The talks on North Korea&&num;8217&semi;s nuclear programme involve the two Koreas&comma; the US&comma; China&comma; Japan and Russia&comma; but have been on hold for nearly two years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68edcf8f7467f">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; 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