”South Korean military's new enemy is the declining birthrate... Difficult to maintain military strength” = CNN

Foreign media reports have emerged that the world's lowest birth rate has emerged as a new enemy for the South Korean military. The total fertility rate is 0.78 per woman, reaching 500,000.
It is difficult to maintain the current military strength. On the 30th (local time), the U.S. broadcaster CNN aired an article entitled, ``The South Korean military's new enemy: Population estimates,'' stating, ``The number of people living in South Korea is only 0.78.
"South Korea's total fertility rate could become the South Korean military's greatest enemy," the report said. In order for the South Korean military to maintain its current strength level, 200,000 people would have to enlist or conscript each year.
The number of births in 2022 was less than 250,000. Assuming a 50:50 gender ratio, up to 125,000 men will join the military in 20 years, when they reach military age in 2022.
The calculation is that people will enlist. According to the Korea Statistics Agency (equivalent to the Statistics Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications), the annual number of births is expected to decline further to 220,000 in 2025 and 160,000 in 2072.
It will be done. In preparation for population decline, the South Korean government has reduced the number of standing soldiers from 670,000 in 2006 to less than 500,000, and has promoted the increasingly elite military. ``CNN'' said about this, ``North Korea
It is premised on the incorrect assumption that the threat of North Korea launched intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) five times this year alone, and Kim Jung Eun, Chairman of the State Council, launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
It has been pointed out that security threats have continued, such as on the 0th, when he said that he would not hesitate to retaliate with nuclear weapons in the event of an enemy nuclear attack. On the other hand, on the 2nd, the US New York Times published an article titled, ``Will South Korea disappear?''
In a column titled ``South Korea is a research target country that is a notable example of the problem of population decline faced by developed countries'' and dealt with the issue of South Korea's declining birthrate. This column is about the recently announced third quarter of South Korea.
He introduced statistics on the total fertility rate during the period, and explained that ``this kind of population decline exceeds the population decline that the plague caused in Europe in the 14th century.''