The Daily Caller:
The missile shield the U.S. intends to deploy in South Korea could be the first casualty in a U.S.-China conflict, a former Chinese diplomat revealed.
The U.S. is preparing to install a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile shield in Seongju, South Korea next year to protect the country from North Korean missile threats. In addition to infuriating North Korea, the planned deployment of THAAD has outraged China.
Concerned about its national security interests, China is displeased with the capabilities of the THAAD system’s X-band radar.
“If the U.S. and China fought in war, the first round of attack should include the X-band radar,” Yang Xiyu, a former Chinese foreign ministry official tasked with handling affairs on the Korean Peninsula and a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, told the Yonhap News Agency on the sidelines of a recent seminar.
