TY  - BOOK
AU  - APTHORP Claire
TI  - South Korea and Japan: Rivals in naval expansion
PY  - 2015///
KW  - JAPAN
KW  - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
KW  - SOUTH KOREA
KW  - NORTH KOREA
KW  - CHINA
KW  - ANTI-AIR WARFARE
KW  - ANTI-SURFACE WARFARE
KW  - ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE
N2  - As China and North Korea continue to build up their military strength, Japan and South Korea are enhancing their self-defence capabilities in the interests of defending their terrirtories against threats, and to maintain an acceptable power balance in the region. For both Japan and South Korea, this has seen an increased focus on the development of layered defences, with well-equipped surface vessels forming an outer ring capable of providing anti-air warfare (AAW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) as well as defending critical Sea Lines of Communication
ER  -