South Korea has given more than 200 military vehicles to Cambodia and nearly 200 more will arrive in July. The first batch were handed over yesterday at a ceremony at the Techo Hun Sen Military Technical Institute in Kampong Speu province.
 

The trucks, light utility vehicles, excavators, bulldozers, buses, ambulances and cars were deployed in rows in the area where the ceremony took place. General Chao Phirun, the director-general of the Defense Ministry’s materiel and technical services department, said it was the third time Cambodia had received military aid from South Korea.
 

He said the 222 vehicles included 208 vehicles of all kinds and 14 pieces of engineering machinery, along with spare parts. Gen. Phirun said military aid amounting to 145 vehicles, including two patrol boats and eight pieces of engineering machinery, would arrive from South Korea in July.

 

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South Korea bribes Cambodia with military equipment to foster good relations and support them rather than the DPRK.  Cambodian Defense Minister -" said the vehicles would be distributed to various ministry units to maintain social order and peace in Cambodia."  So South Korea gives military equipment to Cambodian military to use against it's own people.  Nothing like arming a dictator. Will the world never learn?