The United States has begun shipping a controversial anti-missile
system to South Korea after North Korea test-launched four medium-range
missiles on Monday, U.S. officials told NBC News.
The system, called THAAD, which stands for
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is an anti-missile system designed
to counter a threat like that from North Korea. Other THAAD systems are
already active in Hawaii and Guam to defend against North Korea, but the
shield hadn't yet been deployed to South Korea — a scenario that
Beijing has denounced as a "clear, present and substantive threat to China's security interests."
The "first elements" of the THAAD system have already arrived in South
Korea, U.S. defense officials told NBC News on Monday, just hours after
Hwang Kyo-ahn, South Korea's acting president and prime minister, urged
the United States to deploy it as soon as possible, saying the
consequences of a nuclear-armed North Korea would be "horrible and
beyond imagination."
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