If South Korean citizens expect an impenetrable artillery shield, then they risk being disappointed. South Korea’s Defense Minister Suh Wook announced on June 28, 2021, plans to spend 2.89 trillion won ($2.6 billion) developing an equivalent of the Iron Dome air defense system used by Israel. Just a month prior, Israeli Iron Dome batteries allegedly shot down 90 percent of the roughly 1,500 unguided rockets fired by Hamas that were bound for populated areas of Israel, out of a total of 4,300 that were launched. Yet a Korean Iron Dome system might easily face 4,300 projectiles in just one hour should North Korea attack the South—and fewer of those projectiles would go wildly off target.