The South Korean government is speeding up steps to turn a U.S. anti-missile battery deployed here into a permanent installation. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, capable of intercepting incoming ballistic missiles, was deployed in Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province in 2017, to deter North Korea s nuclear and missile threats.
US troops in South Korea remotely fired their top-shelf missile-defense system for the first time during a large-scale military exercise, according to U.S. Forces Korea.
can t shoot down everything all the time. and i guess i m sort of stating the obvious but sometimes it needs to be stated. two weeks ago there were things throating over the u.s. and we weren t shooting them down. either we didn t see them or didn t shoot them. what are you going to do? shoot everything? it feels unprepared. yeah, quiet on the northern front today. nothing shot down thaad. that s what they re doing increasing the aperture and concern is false positives, we would be scrambling f-22s and f-16s all the time for potentially bird formations. these are radar equipment with imperfections. it tells us we have to reinvest in the infrastructure and get better, both near term and long term with regard to this kind of situation. and, look, congressman, here s the issue, there is a reality here which is that it wouldn t have happened if the balloon, the chinese balloon would not have become public and everyone knew about it and forced us increasingly that this