South Korea decided Wednesday to spend around an additional 100 billion won ($85 million) of its budget to bolster its anti-terrorism posture.

The government and the ruling Saenuri Party reached the agreement at an emergency meeting.

Alarms have been raised in South Korea, an ally of the United States, after the Paris terror attacks.

South Korea faces direct military threats from North Korea, and it has millions of nationals living and traveling abroad.

Under the plan, the government will purchase five armed high-speed boats worth 29.6 billion won.

It will also use nearly 30 billion won to beef up measures against biological and chemical terror attacks.

Immigration checks will be toughened as well.

The government plans to revise related legislation to require South Korean residents abroad to provide fingerprint information to enter their homeland. Currently, they are exempt from the measure. (Yonhap)