South Korea and the United States announced Wednesday that they will deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang Province. However, the missile ...

Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea’s main opposition Democratic Party, met with the acting United States ambassador to South Korea on Jan. 22, stressing the importance of bolstering the South ...

Donald Trump, after taking oath as the President of the United States, signed an executive order titled The Iron Dome America ...

Why China Opposes Thaad in South Korea The U.S. has begun deploying a controversial missile-defense system, known as Thaad, to South Korea, a day after Pyongyang launched four ballistic missiles.

Further, using THAAD against hypersonic weapons is entirely unproven. Western analysts remain skeptical. They highlight recent failures involving North Korea’s Hwasong-16 IRBM, leading them to ...

The Minute to Read (Weekdays) series provides a quick overview of significant events in Korea everyday, conveniently ...

Plans to place the Thaad system in South Korea have been mooted for months, ostensibly in response to North Korea’s widely condemned nuclear bomb and other missile tests. “We oppose the Thaad ...

Footage on social media showed what security sources later confirmed as the firing of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery missile to intercept a Houthi attack from Yemen early on ...