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                  South Korea to Buy 36 US Apache Helicopters

   South Korea has agreed to buy a fleet of U.S. Apache attack
   helicopters, at a time of heightened tensions with North Korea.
   The South`s defense acquisition agency says it will buy 36 of the
   helicopters from aircraft maker Boeing over a three-year period
   starting in 2016.
   The agency says the helicopters are intended to replace a fleet of
   aging Army helicopters and to help deter provocations from the North.
   South Korea`s Yonhap news agency is reporting the deal is worth about
   $1.5 billion.
   For weeks, North Korea has made repeated threats of a possible nuclear
   attack, including against the U.S. mainland.
   Pyongyang has been angered in part by joint U.S.-South Korean military
   exercises that it sees as a prelude to an invasion of the North.
   Washington and Seoul have insisted the drills are defensive.
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