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Last week, we announced that the US is pushing to improve performance by moving and deploying only launch pads at Sadd turrets. Launch pad movement in Seongju Sad is a key point that needs to be consulted with our military. Experts say the USFK has already begun training the launch pad movement.

Kim Tae-hoon is a defense journalist.

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In December 2018, the US Eighth Army 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade moved some of the launch pads of Seongju Sadd from the Waegwan US Army base in Gyeongbuk to conduct assembly training.

The US Army has officially given the meaning of the first Sadd relocation training on the Korean Peninsula.

In April last year, similar training was conducted at the US military base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, where the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade mounted a Sadd mock-up on the launch pad and said it had mastered the process just before launch.

Experts evaluated both training as part of the US Sadd Performance Improvement Plan, where the Sadd Radar and Control Station were moved to Seongju and only part of the launch pad.

[Shin Jong-Woo / Korea Defense Security Forum Chief Analyst: USFK appears to have been validated through mobile deployment training before improving the Sadd Launcher mobile deployment and remote launch capabilities.]

The Pentagon said there was no US-ROK talks on the move, and the move would only be on display.

The US military's position is that the relocation of the US military's Sadd is not an arrangement for war, but rather a wartime preparation.

[Yon-Soo Lee / Former Air Force Commander: Anti-Aircraft Missile Commander: I am training myself to improve the performance of the USFK Sadd, or to develop combat power.

The US military continues to focus on strategic ambiguity, whether it is because of the political and diplomatic explosiveness of the Sadd issue.

(Video coverage: Park Hyun-chul, Video editing: Lee Seung-jin)