We no basically zero about some of these security issues. It’s possible that this whole N. Korea thing was manufactured so we could legitimize placing these anti-missile defenses there.
I know that. But it shows they are not interested in peace on that peninsula. They are interested in ruling over matters of policy in that peninsula. Thus, all of the niceties with PRC Xi is but fluff founded on nothing.
If the Chicoms want THAD gone then make the dog eating nut ball go away. It’s fairly simple. On the downside if THAD is also deployed in Japan and Japan goes nuclear the Chicoms have quit the mess on their hands of their own making. Support a mad man and lose your ICBM threat to Asia and North America and a mortal enemy gets nukes. Take out a mad man and all this goes away and the Korean peninsula finally quietens down after 60 yrs. Hmm, choices, choices comrades.