US setting up missile defense system in South Korea The United States has begun to set up an anti-missile system in South Korea to help protect that nation from a possible North Korean attack.

Protesters shouted slogans Wednesday, as an advanced U.S. missile defense system, the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, was being installed in South Korea.

The American missile system has caused controversy, partly because President Trump suggested he would charge South Korea for it.

Even South Korea, the primary country that THAAD seeks to defend from the aggressive and unpredictable neighbor to the north, is far from unified in its stance on the anti-missile system.

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea – U.S. Forces Korea has delivered equipment that will add functionality to a missile-defense system stationed on the peninsula and better "protect the South Korean ...

Deploying THAAD on the Korean Peninsula would enhance South Korea’s defense against potentially catastrophic nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks and advanced North Korean missile ...

The U.S. military started moving parts of the THAAD missile system to a deployment site in South Korea on Wednesday.

America's THAAD anti-missile system—deployed as a direct check to the nuclear threat posed by North Korea—is now operational south of Seoul, U.S. and South Korean officials have said.

The THAAD missile system will add another layer of anti-missile defense for South Korea. The U.S. military and South Korea both have Patriot anti-missile batteries that can defend against short ...

The first pieces of a US-built missile defense system designed to mitigate the threat of North Korean missiles arrived at the Osan Air Base in South Korea Monday night, according to the US military.

An American missile defense system installed in South Korea is now operational and ready to intercept missiles from North Korea, the U.S. military said, as tensions on the peninsula remain high in ...