Part of the
elements of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
missile defense system has been deployed in southeastern South Korea,
Seoul's defense ministry said Wednesday.
Without
elaborating, the ministry said in a statement that part of the THAAD
battery was installed in the site in a bid to secure an initial
operational capability without any separate construction of
facilities.
Seoul and
Washington agreed in July last year to deploy one THAAD battery by
the end of this year. The site was changed in September last year
into a golf course, which Lotte Group had owned, at Soseong-ri
village in Seongju county, South Gyeongsang province.
On March 6,
two mobile launchers and part of the elements were delivered by a
U.S. transport airplane to a U.S. military base in South Korea.
Since then,
other THAAD elements had been secretly transported to the U.S. bases
in South Korea's port city of Busan, Osan city near Seoul and Camp
Carroll near Seongju, according to Newsis news agency.
A THAAD
battery is composed of six mobile launchers, 48 interceptors, an
AN/TPY-2 radar and the fire & control unit.
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