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S-400s will protect Russia against missile threats - official

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Jul 13, 2010 18:19 Moscow Time
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The deployment of up-to-date S-400 Triumph surface-to-air missiles in the Russian Far East will help avert potential missile threats from North Korea, a Russian defense official has told Interfax.

He acknowledged that North Korean missile programs posed a certain danger to neighboring Russian regions, for example, in case of failed launches or stray rockets.

North Korea’s missile test field is not far from the Russian border, the official said in an interview following an earlier statement by Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin that two S-400 missiles systems would be put on combat duty in far-eastern Russia.

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