March 1, 2017

"Senior security and defense officials of South Korea and the United States held phone talks on Wednesday to talk about the deployment of the U.S. missile shield in South Korean soil and the launch of joint military exercises.

Kim Kwan-jin, top security adviser to impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye, talked via phone with his U.S. counterpart H.R. McMaster, who was named as new U.S. national security adviser last month, the presidential Blue House of South Korea said.

During the half-hour dialogue, Kim and McMaster agreed to deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in southeast South Korea as scheduled for what they said was nuclear and missile threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)."

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