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U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea
The U.S. has begun the installation of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles system:
The US military has started installing a controversial missile defence system at a site in South Korea, amid high tensions over neighbouring North Korea's nuclear and missile ambitions. The Thaad system is designed to protect against threats from North Korea.
Hundreds of local residents protested against the deployment, as vehicles carrying equipment arrived at the site in the south of the country. China argues Thaad will destabilise security in the region. The US has in recent days deployed warships and a submarine to the Korean peninsula, amid fears North Korea could be planning further missile or nuclear tests.
Admiral Harry Harris said that the THAAD system would bring Kim Jong-un "to his senses, not to his knees".
FireEye recently claimed that China is attempting to hack South Korean targets to delay the deployment of THAAD.
U.S. Moves Anti-Missile Kit to S. Korea
Reuters reports that the United States has transported components of the THAAD anti-missile system to the site chosen for it in South Korea, amid protests:
[...] and was denounced by the frontrunner in South Korea's presidential election on May 9.
A spokesman for Moon Jae-in said the decision "ignored public opinion and due process" and demanded the deployment be suspended until the next administration was in place and had made its policy decision.
China has expressed opposition to deployment of the system. AFP via Yahoo! reports that:
The South's tourist industry has been hammered by Beijing's boycott over THAAD, with Chinese visitor numbers -- normally more than half the total -- plummeting 40 percent last month even though the ban only came into force on March 15.
Retail conglomerate Lotte -- which provided the Seongju golf course site to the Seoul government -- has also been targeted, with 85 of its 99 stores in China shut down.
Additional coverage:
- Bloomberg
- Korea Herald
- VOA News (U.S. government outlet)
- AFP via inquirer.net
Previous stories:
International Relations Strained over S. Korean Anti-missile Plans
G20 Summit Roundup
South Korea to Receive U.S. Anti-Missile Interceptor System
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(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:06PM (5 children)
Build the wall to the north. Build it across the land, via payment or war or whatever. Build the wall to the south, making Mexico pay via a chunk of land. (and heck, take all watersheds that span the border)
Whatever! Just build the wall or, better, build several fences and a minefield.
Democrats claim the wall won't work, just like tobacco companies claimed that Australia's packaging requirements wouldn't work. They doth protest too much: it's obvious that they know it to be a cost-effective solution, and this is what they oppose.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:21PM
So, in other words, overreact like psychotic dickheads to our neighbors because of a threat thousands of miles away across a huge ocean? We should act warlike, abuse our neighbors, engage in theft and war to obtain land, to achieve peace?
Trump? Are you on SoylentNews!?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:08PM (2 children)
As near as I have been able to figure out – and I have honestly tried to – Trump's wall represents an approximately twenty-one billion dollar initial expense (plus more for maintenance and monitoring, of course), where the net effect of said expenditures will be to make our vegetables, nannies, and lawn care considerably more expensive.
It won't affect the volume of recreational drugs at all, though I have no doubt at all it will make them at least slightly more profitable to produce within our own borders in states that actually border Mexico. A great deal of the "solutions" Trump and Sessions have suggested are barely-disguised pumping assists for the money-for-war-on-informed-personal-choice the government conducts against its own citizens. This is no exception.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:13PM (1 child)
Economic stimulus! Bring (drug) manufacturing back to America! MAGA!
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(Score: 1) by fyngyrz on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:18PM
+1 funny; +1 true.
(Score: 1) by Roger Murdock on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:49PM
just like tobacco companies claimed that Australia's packaging requirements wouldn't work.
Well there's the solution, just build a series of billboards along the border with pictures of homeless people and invoices for medical services