SEOUL (AFP): South Korea will send a naval destroyer and 300 troops to the Strait of Hormuz, its defence ministry said Tuesday (Jan 21), after pressure from its ally the US in the face of tensions between Washington and Teheran.
Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping vessels in the strait, a strategic choke point for the world's oil trade where the US has deployed a naval mission.
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