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A U.S. intelligence agency will give the South Korean military a digital map of the Korean Peninsula, which has been drawn and updated by using military satellites, an Army official in Seoul said on Sunday.
James Clapper, director of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, promised to deliver the “digital topography intelligence” to South Korea when he had met Kim Jang-soo, South Korean Army chief of staff, Yonhap news agency quoted the unnamed official in Seoul as saying.
Kim visited the United States from Jan. 8 to 15.
The digital map is the exploitation and analysis of geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth, the agency said on its Web site.
It contains information, collected from U.S. military spy satellites, that could be used “in times of emergency'' to conduct surgical strikes, the wire news service reported.
The two Koreas have remained technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended with no peace treaty. Some 1.6 million troops are in a daily standoff on the heavily fortified border.
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