THAAD Ready to Face, China and Russia Voice Serious

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South Korean media said today the long-planned deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense(THAAD) in South Korea will work on with the arrival of radar equipment and other hardware.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang called on the US and South Korea to halt the deployment operations.

“Beijing had conveyed its serious concern to the US and South Korea over the matter”, Shuang added.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned against “heavy-handed approaches,” which he said would have many “catastrophic consequences” for the region.

“It is obvious that heavy-handed approaches that are beginning to be mentioned publicly are fraught with catastrophic consequences for the Korean Peninsula and the whole of Northeast Asia,” he told the annual Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS).

the Russian foreign minister said, “An extremely destabilizing factor remains the forced deployment of US THAAD systems, a component of the US global missile defense, in the south of the peninsula.”

The US missile system is being installed in Seongju in South Korea’s North Gyeongsang Province.