China Prepares to Counter US THAAD Missile Defense System in South Korea
‘According to Wang, China does not intend to wait for the election of a new South Korean president, as the next head of state is unlikely to change the policy regarding or curtail the THAAD deployment process.
“We will complete our deployment before THAAD begins operations. There is no need to wait for two months [before the election of the next South Korean president]… We already have such equipment in place. We just have to move it to the right spot,” Wang said on the sidelines of the political sessions in Beijing on Monday, as quoted by the South China Morning Post.
According to former PLA Col. Yue Geng, China can disrupt the functionality of the THAAD system with the help of electromagnetic technologies.’
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