Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense

July 22, 2016

Protests as S. Korea president defends US anti-missile system
Seoul (AFP) July 21, 2016
Several thousand South Koreans staged an angry protest Thursday against the planned deployment of a US anti-missile system near their hometown, but President Park Geun-Hye insisted the move was a national security imperative. South Korea's defence ministry announced last week the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system, or THAAD, will be installed in Seongju - a rural county about 200 kilometers (135 miles) southeast of Seoul - by the end of next year. The decision was predicated on the gro ... read more

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