“North Korea continues to launch missiles, develop its nuclear weapons program, and engage in threatening rhetoric and behavior,” Mattis said, standing alongside his South Korean opposite number, Han Min Koo, during a press conference in the country’s capital Seoul.
Mattis’s continued push for THAAD to be deployed comes despite doubts held by South Korean authorities due to concerns over the domestic and international political sensitivity of the program. This as the Asian nation is preparing for upcoming national elections.
“THAAD should be a worry to no nation other than North Korea,” affirmed Mattis, in comments taken as a reference to China’s objections to its implementation in South Korea.
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