A 50-member Korean SWAT team greeted the U.S. national team when it arrived at the Seogwipo Airport on Tuesday for Sunday’s friendly against South Korea. On Monday, a squad of 20 police officers with bomb-sniffing dogs checked every room in which the players and staff will be staying. Six special agents will guard the team 24 hours a day. “They can feel safe,” Kim Dogh Man, the security head of the Seogwipo police department, told Chousun Daily. “This is the first time we’ve used a SWAT team to guard a foreign soccer team,” said Chon Wul Yong, the South Korean soccer federation director of transport. “It may seem a little to strict, but safety comes first.” On Friday, the team is visiting the U.S. Military Camp Bonifas, located just 400 yards south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The day-long trip will see the U.S. team transported from their southern training site on the island of Jeju in two Chinook CH-47 helicopters, a two-and-a-half hour trek north into the Joint Security Area (JSA). The Korean Demilitarized Zone is a three-mile wide strip of land straddling the 151 mile-long Military Demarcation Line (MDL) that borders South and North Korea. The July 27, 1953, Armistice Agreement established the DMZ along the approximate line of ground contact between the opposing forces at the time the truce ended the Korean War. Sunday’s game will be televised on Monday, at 1 p.m. ET on ESPN. It marks the first of two pre-World Cup meetings between the teams that were drawn together in Group D. They also meet Jan. 19 at the Gold Cup in Pasadena, Calif.