Klingner, Bruce

Abstract
Despite escalating North Korean nuclear and implementing a more effective defense of its populace Seoul refrains from deploying more capable interceptors into a more comprehensive and capable allied maintains a policy of “strategic ambiguity” due deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Beijing claims that THAAD deployment would However, a technical analysis reveals that disingenuous and deploying THAAD to South any way. The deployment of THAAD on the Korean Peninsula defense against potentially catastrophic nuclear, and advanced North Korean missile capabilities, ability to engage in coercive diplomacy, and augment potential of success of a potential North Korean The decision to deploy THAAD is a sovereign national security objectives and the defensive not subordinate the defense of its citizens to economic blackmail by Beijing.
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