Posted on 07/08/2016 5:19:55 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
South Korea, U.S. to deploy THAAD missile defense, drawing China rebuke
South Korea and the United States said on Friday they will deploy an advanced missile defense system in South Korea to counter a threat from North Korea, drawing sharp and swift protest from neighboring China.
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system will be used only as protection against North Korea's growing nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, the South's Defence Ministry and the U.S. Defence Department said in a joint statement.
Beijing said on Friday it lodged complaints with the U.S. and South Korean ambassadors over the THAAD decision.
China said the system would destabilize the security balance in the region without achieving anything to end the North's nuclear program. China is North Korea's main ally but opposes its pursuit of nuclear weapons and backed the latest U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang in March.
"China strongly urges the United States and South Korea to stop the deployment process of the THAAD anti-missile system, not take any steps to complicate the regional situation and do nothing to harm China's strategic security interests," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Selection of a site for the system could come "within weeks" and the allies were working to have it operational by the end of 2017, a South Korean defense ministry official said.
The THAAD will be deployed to U.S. Forces Korea, "to protect alliance military forces from North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile threats," the joint statement said. The United States maintains 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean war.
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Well this is a better deal than facing S. Korean nukes, or operational IRBM's. They should think positively instead of berating everybody else to be "rational," a code word for "submission."
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Dear China,
Don’t like THAAD in South Korea, then get the nukes out of North Korea.
China is making the same mistakes made by Imperial Japan in the 1930s and 40s.
Its Theater, not Terminal.
Taiwan is the country that really needs them.
the better missiles would be the POS’s
Pyongyang Obliteration System
Missile defense? Defend what? No one wants it.
red
Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
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