Posted on 02/09/2016 2:08:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After delaying nearly two years, the Pentagon on Monday announced plans to deploy advanced missile defenses in South Korea as soon as possible.
In early 2014 the U.S. military commander in South Korea, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, asked the Pentagon for ground-based Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (or THAAD) units to counter growing threats posed by North Korean nuclear arms and missiles.
China's government, however, pressured the South Korean government of Park Geun Hye into blocking the deployment. In the interim, the Obama administration did not press Seoul to allow interceptor batteries to be fielded, according to U.S. officials.
Scaparrotti repeated the need for the missile deployment in a statement Sunday. "North Korea continues to develop their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, and it is the responsibility of our alliance to maintain a strong defense against those threats," he said. "THAAD can add an important capability in a layered and effective missile defense."
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told reporters that discussions on the deployment were prompted by North Korea's long-range missile test Sunday and underground nuclear test last month.
Cook said the missile launch "represents yet another destabilizing and provocative action that only undermines peace and stability in the region."
North Korean state media claimed the rocket launch successfully deployed an earth observation satellite in polar orbit.
The U.S. Strategic Command, which is in charge of missile defenses that had been placed on alert days before the missile test, said the command's assets tracked a "missile … on a southerly route over the Yellow Sea" and a "launch into space." A Stratcom statement said two items have been detected in a polar orbit, a possible satellite and a second object believed to be the last stage of the missile.
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This is what Ted Cruz advocated at Saturday’s debate when that witch asked him what he would do.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Today it seems impossible under the most perverted and corrupted administration in the history of the world!
Hey boneheads, they can reach the US now you idiots.
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This is not the first time Obama has followed cruz’s lead.
We’ve been way too passive with NK for almost 50 years. We’ve been funding and enabling China’s economy and military since 1989. Ignoring Communist dictators especially the NK dictator hell bent on developing a nuke is insanity. No matter how they obtained the technology they can put a missile into orbit. NK can nuke us or do a Bio attack and China can shut us down economically without even deploying troops. We should have stuck with Japan as a trade partner and left China to a third world status. Free Trade my eye were committing national suicide.
Excellent Post.
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