USA and South Korea carried out, for the first time, deployment exercises of the Defense Terminal for High Altitude Areas (THAAD), an advanced missile defense system American capable of intercept projectiles coming from North Korea.
The deployment took place at military maneuvers joint meetings that were carried out in recent weeks, although they announced it on March 24, according to information collected by the agency yonhap.
“This exercise enhanced the combat readiness of the THAAD unit and the combined defense posture between South Korea and the US. in preparation for the advanced missile threat from North Korea,” both countries said.
The announcement is given in the context of a growing tension on the Korean peninsula and after the Kim Jong-un regime has confirmed the launch of a “strategic submarine nuclear weapon”.
The use of remote launchers occurs as part of the army modernization program US missile defense system designed to rationalize and integrate its THAAD and Patriot missile defense systems into a single program to make security operations more flexible.
China, which maintains that THAAD’s powerful radar could monitor its airspacehalted trade and imports of cultural products after Seoul announced its deployment in 2016, dealing a severe blow to relations between the two countries.
The South Korean presidential office said that the system stationed in the country is a means of self-defenseaccording to a transcript of a briefing, after Beijing demanded Seoul not deploy more batteries and limit the use of existing ones.
The South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeolaffirmed this Friday that the dictator Kim Jong-un, “will pay for his reckless provocations””, hours after Pyongyang fired a new type of underwater drone capable of generating radioactive tsunamis.
“North Korea is advancing its nuclear weapons day by day, and carrying out missile provocations with unprecedented intensity.Yoon said at a memorial service for the 55 fallen Yellow Sea sailors held in the daejeon National Cemetery, 139 kilometers south of Seoul.
“Our Government and our Army will dramatically reinforce the South Korean three-axis system, in the face of the advances and provocations of missiles from the Northand will strengthen security cooperation with the United States and Japan,” Yoon said, referring to the military strategy that includes anti-missile defenses, a platform of preemptive strikes and plans to disarm the North Korean regime.
North Korean propaganda media reported Friday that dictator Kim Jong-un this week tested a underwater drone capable of generating radioactive tsunamis similar to the Russian system known as Poseidon.
The device was deployed off the North Korean coast and “reached the target point in the waters of the hongwon bay set up as a simulated enemy port with its test warhead, detonating underwater Thursday afternoon,” according to the agency. KCNA.
(With information from EFE, AFP and Europa Press)
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