The country’s navy is looking to scale-up its maritime patrol and operation helicopters to cope with the growing threat of World War 3.
And Seoul hopes to form a new aviation command to control around 70 aircraft and helicopters by 2023.
The Yonhap news agency reported the new mobile fleet would include a number of high-tech KDDX Aegis destroyers equipped with advanced ballistic missile defence systems.
They will also be fitted with sea-to-surface missiles to strike at the heart of Pyongyang’s military.
Um Hyun-seong, the chief of naval operation, said: “We will focus on improving our capability to strike the North Korean leadership and core targets inside the North’s ballistic missile operation area.
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“We are maintaining a combat posture to retaliate strongly if the enemy provokes.”
The admiral said South Koreas forces would retaliate immediately if provoked, with any provocation on the northwestern islands being treated as a declaration of war.
The plans were announced as South Korea also said it was considering its own sanctions on North Korea.
Today, the USS Ronald Reagan, a 100,000-ton nuclear powered aircraft carrier, patrolled waters east of the Korean peninsula, in a show of sea and air power designed to warn off the North from any military action.
It is conducting drills with the South Korean navy involving 40 warships deployed in a line stretching from the Yellow Sea west of the peninsula into the Sea of Japan.
Admiral Marc Dalton, commander of the Reagan’s strike group, said: ”The dangerous and aggressive behaviour by North Korea concerns everybody in the world.
“We have made it clear with this exercise, and many others, that we are ready to defend the Republic of Korea.”
North Korea has slammed the warship gathering as a “rehearsal for war”. It comes as senior Japanese, South Korean and US diplomats meet in Seoul to discuss a diplomatic way forward backed up by UN sanctions.
On Monday, Kim In Ryong, North Korea’s deputy UN envoy warned the Korean peninsula situation had reached a touch-and-go point and a nuclear war could break out at any moment.
The situation has been on a knife-edge since Kim Jong-un’s tyrannical regime fired a series of missiles, including its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.