The US began deployment of the THAAD system in South Korea
Moscow. March 7. INTERFAX.RU — the United States has embarked on a program of placing missile defence systems THAAD in South Korea, said on Tuesday the US Pacific command.
“The continuing provocative actions of North Korea, including last night’s multiple launches of missiles, only validated last year’s decision of the Alliance on the placement of THAAD in South Korea”, — reads the statement of the command.
As reported by South Korean media, the first batch of components of THAAD batteries has been delivered to the American military transport plane at a military base in South Korea.
The agreement on the deployment of THAAD have been achieved in the past year to counter a missile threat from the DPRK.
China strongly opposes the deployment of U.S. missile defense systems on the Korean Peninsula because, according to the statements of Beijing, this breaks the strategic balance in the region.