The Ministry of National Defense should speed up an evaluation of whether mandatory military service needs to be extended, a military expert said yesterday.
Retired army major general Richard Hu (胡瑞舟) made the comment after Deputy Minister of National Defense Bo Hong-hui (柏鴻輝) on Friday said that an assessment should take no more than one year.
China has been a continual threat, and the ministry and other national security agencies have been assessing the situation for years, so it should not take more than a couple of months to reassess what the nation needs, Hu said.
Before the government makes an announcement on