Sorry China and Russia, but the US has to put its THAAD missile system in South Korea
WASHINGTON — America's most advanced missile-defense system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), is heading to South Korea, and while that has Russia, China, and North Korea peeved, US leaders are committed to the deployment. During a July 13, Hudson Institute discussion on US missile-technology preeminence, US Army Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), stressed the importance of deploying THAAD to protect the Korean peninsula and US interests, despite it upsetting near peers like Russia and China. "Certainly the Russians and the Chinese and other stakeholders understand that in South Korea besides being a wonderful ally, significant economic engine for growth throughout the world, that there are tens of thousands of American citizens living there, there is still US forces there, they are playing a defense role and they are at risk everyday to a host of threats that now include the potential for ballistic missile carried weapons of mass destruction," Gen. Jacoby said. ...
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