S KOREA WILL NOT WANT TO GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD IF AND WHEN JAPAN PLANS TO TAKE BACK THE ISLAND OF DOKDO (LIANCOURT ROCKS) WHICH IS ONLY 117.1 MILES FROM KOREA–SINCE JAPAN LAYS CLAIM TO THIS SAME ISLAND THAT KOREA HAS SETTLED IN CENTURIES PAST–KOREA TO STATION A COMPANY OF MARINES IN THE ULLEUNG ISLAND

Korea will station a company of Marines on Ulleung Island to boost the defense of the easternmost islets of Dokdo, on which Japan has territorial designs, a source said Thursday.
The measure is part of a long-term plan to form a coastal defense linking the islands off North Korea in the West Sea with Jeju in the South and Ulleung in the East Sea.
Dokdo lies about 90 km east of Ulleung.
At the moment a squad of Marines is dispatched to Dokdo by helicopter for twice-yearly defense drills. A base on Ulleung will make it possible to dispatch more combat forces to Dokdo.
There is a company of homeland reserve forces commanded by a Marine major on Ulleung that defends the island and conducts exercises, but no contingent of combat Marines.

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