SEONGJU, South Korea, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Thousands of residents in the southern town of Seongju took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the government’s designation of the town as a site for the deployment of an advanced U.S. antimissile system. Some 5,000 residents of the town in North Gyeongsang Province staged a [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Back in February when South Korea and the U.S. began discussing the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system, China expressed serious concern, with some speculating that Korea might face harsh retaliation such as non-tariff barriers (NTBs), according to Yonhap News. In March, South Korea and China held bilateral talks [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday warned it will take “physical action” against South Korea and the United States over the allies’ decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. North Korea’s military said it will strike the moment the two countries decide on where to place [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States have agreed to deploy a high-tech antiballistic-missile interception system in the Northeast Asian country to upgrade the allies’ defense against North Korea’s increasing nuclear and missile threats, the defense ministry said Friday. The decision came after five months of negotiations between Seoul and [...]
WASHINGTON, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The potential deployment of a THAAD missile defense unit to South Korea has become a “litmus test” for how Seoul is aligned between Washington and Beijing, according to a U.S. congressional report. The Congressional Research Service made the point in a report published earlier this month and titled, “Ballistic Missile Defense [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States has included its advanced missile-defense system as part of the support it would provide South Korea in emergency situations on the Korean Peninsula, a South Korean military source said Sunday. “The U.S. plans to deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in case of an emergency on [...]