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Speaker 1: Boost from our Defense Force into Korea. We're sending forty

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Speaker 1: one of our personnel to South Korea to help with

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Speaker 1: the UN Command. Defense Minister Judith Collins with us on

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Speaker 1: this very good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Oh good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: Is this increasingly an angsty part of the world.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think any of us who look at the

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Speaker 2: world now, we can see that things are obviously moving

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Speaker 2: in a difficult way. But it's also important to note

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Speaker 2: that the United Nations Command is asked for the sextra

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Speaker 2: contribution from US as though from my point of view,

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Speaker 2: it's a road of confidence in New Zealand's role and

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Speaker 2: we're considered a very good player in the world with

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Speaker 2: people who contribute well and our people will do well.

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Speaker 1: What will they be doing well?

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Speaker 2: There's an honor Guard, which is the extra to what

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Speaker 2: we've done before. It's at eighty five personnel. Those are

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Speaker 2: mostly younger lease experienced of our Defense Force team. So

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Speaker 2: it's a really good opportunity for those with a couple

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Speaker 2: of years service to actually get not only some overseas deployment,

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Speaker 2: but actually working with other nations because now we are

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Speaker 2: one of several other countries involved that it's good for

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Speaker 2: them to do that, good for their training, good for

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Speaker 2: their understanding of how we're working with other countries. And

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Speaker 2: then of course we've got an extra six going to

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Speaker 2: the currently twelve that we currently provide to the Armistice

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Speaker 2: Commission and the new.

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Speaker 1: In command and given the parlor state in parts of

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Speaker 1: our defense force to forty one stretches or are we

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Speaker 1: comfortable with us?

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Speaker 2: Mostly the large number of this is actually our newer

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Speaker 2: people and so the factors that will be good for them.

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Speaker 2: One of the best things we can do in defense

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Speaker 2: is to keep everyone home because frankfully, no one joins

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Speaker 2: defense because they want to improve their missing skills at home.

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Speaker 2: They really do want to be out there in the

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Speaker 2: world again to rub shoulders with the people that we

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Speaker 2: work with in defense roles. So this is good for defense,

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Speaker 2: it's good for us retaining people, and it's really good

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Speaker 2: for us to bringing new people in good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. Defenseman is the Judith Collins. For more

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