South Korea plans to extend anti-piracy patrols closer to Strait of Hormuz

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South Korea plans to send a patrol aircraft to protect merchant shipping off Oman as piracy activity reportedly spreads farther from Somalia. Seoul says its forces will remain outside the ongoing Iran war.

Seoul said pirates have recently ventured further from the Somali coast and added that it wanted to send a patrol aircraft to protect merchant ships off Oman while keeping its forces out of the ongoing Iran war.