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Carter: THAAD in South Korea is ‘Going to Happen’

Friday, April 15th, 2016

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The deployment of a key missile defense system to South Korea is “going to happen,” even if the Chinese government objects to it, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said April 8.The U.S. and South Korean governments began talks earlier in 2016 on the potential placement of the system—the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system made by Lockheed Martin [LMT]—on the Korean peninsula. U.S. officials have argued that THAAD, which intercepts missiles inside and outside the Earth’s atmosphere, is a necessary deterrent…

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