South Korea’s military has determined that the country will develop its own version of the Iron Dome missile interception system instead of buying it from Israel.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) told the National Assembly that it will be more cost effective to research own a local-version of the intercept system and the Iron Dome is also unsuitable in South Korea’s mountainous terrain.
It added that the Iron Dome is designed to handle sporadic rocket attacks and not against long-range artillery barrage that North Korea is expected to launch.