U.S. Begins Shipping Controversial Anti-Missile System to South Korea

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The United States has begun shipping a controversial anti-missile system to South Korea after North Korea test-launched four medium-range missiles on Monday, U.
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officials told NBC News.
"Defense officials stressed that THAAD "is strictly a defensive system" aimed solely at defending South Korea against North Korean missiles.
The system, called THAAD, which stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is an anti-missile system designed to counter a threat like that from North Korea.
Other THAAD systems are already active in Hawaii and Guam to defend against North Korea, but the shield hasn`t yet been deployed to South Korea ? a scenario that Beijing has denounced as a "clear, present and substantive threat to China`s security interests.
"More from NBC News:Immigration Lawyer Navigates Uncertain Future for ManyIn First HUD Remarks, Ben Carson Calls Slaves `Immigrants`DNC Chair Tom Perez: New Travel Ban is `Unconstitutional`The "first elements" of the THAAD system have already arrived in South Korea, U.
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defense officials told NBC News on Monday, just hours after Hwang Kyo-ahn, South Korea`s acting president and prime minister, urged the United States to deploy the system as soon as possible, saying consequences of a nuclear-armed North Korea would be "horrible and beyond imagination.