THAAD deploys to South Korea

[CougarKing]

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Defense News

THAAD To Officially Deploy to South Korea
Jen Judson, Defense News 6:55 a.m. EDT July 8, 2016


WASHINGTON — The United States and South Korea have decided together to deploy the US Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) to the Korean Peninsula as North Korea continues to conduct intermediate-range ballistic missile launches.

According to a Pentagon statement released Thursday night, the US and South Korea will deploy THAAD “as a defensive measure to ensure the security of the ROK and its people and to protect alliance military forces from North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile threats.”

ROK is an abbreviation for Republic of Korea often used by the US military for South Korea.

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[tomahawk6]

A description on how the system works.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/north-korea-now-americas-most-163300439.html

 

[CougarKing]

A deployment to the South to put it out of North Korean artillery range if it had been deployed to near Seoul instead?

Reuters

South Korea chooses site of US THAAD anti-missile system amid protests
By: Jack Kim And Ju-min Park, Reuters
July 13, 2016 7:32 PM


SEOUL - South Korea announced on Wednesday the site where a US THAAD anti-missile defense unit will be deployed against North Korea's missile and nuclear threats, a plan that has angered China and prompted a North Korean warning of retaliation.

South Korea and the United States said last Friday they had made a final decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system in the South.

Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high since North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with a satellite launch and a string of test launches of various missiles.

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[tomahawk6]

The battery is said to be located at an exist ADA site.If THAAD has a range of 200km then it is out of range of NK weapons.Here is a map.Sorry its a bit large. :camo: