"Conscription is still the most feasible system under current circumstances. What [the defense ministry] can do in due course, however, is to recruit more enlisted soldiers, and concurrently reduce the number of conscripts," he said.
Taiwan currently has 380,000 servicemen, about 100,000 of whom are career soldiers.
"In my view, a more crucial point is that the notion needs to be ingrained in the minds of youngsters that serving in the army is not only a duty that citizens must perform, it is also a great honor," he said.
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