Evening Standard:
America has started to install a controversial anti-missile defence system in South Korea as President Donald Trump today summoned every US senator to the White House to attend a special briefing on North Korea.
It came as Kim Jong-un’s regime released images of what it claimed was the biggest live-fire military drill in the country’s history.
The South announced key parts of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, had been deployed as tensions – and military assets -continued to build in the region.
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier is also heading toward the peninsula for a joint exercise with South Korea.
The images were revealed as America started to install a controversial anti-missile defence system in South Korea
North Korea conducted artillery drills yesterday to mark the 85th anniversary of the founding of its million-strong Korean People’s Army.
State media said the communist leader personally observed the exercises, which involved the firing of more than 300 large-caliber artillery pieces and included submarine torpedo-attacks on mock enemy warships.
The moves to set up THAAD within this year have angered not only North Korea, but also China, the country that the Trump administration hopes to work with to rid the North of nuclear weapons.
