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Yoon orders ROK military to deter North Korea from ‘communizing’ South

President also urges army command to act as ‘vanguard of unification’ during visit timed to joint drills with US

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol urged military officials to deter North Korea from pursuing unification by “communizing” the South on Wednesday, visiting an army command that oversees a quarter-million troops amid joint summertime drills with the U.S. 

Yoon called the ROK Army Ground Operations Command the “vanguard of unification” during the visit, referring to his new unification doctrine that calls for spreading freedom to the DPRK and combating “anti-state forces.”

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