South Korea’s missile shield is home — but are the missiles with it?

All six truck-mounted launchers belonging to the U.S. Army’s only THAAD battery in South Korea have returned to their home base in Seongju County, ending a three-month deployment to Osan Air Base that sparked months of speculation about whether Washington was stripping the Korean Peninsula of

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All six truck-mounted launchers belonging to the U.S. Army’s only THAAD battery in South Korea have returned to their home base in Seongju County, ending a three-month deployment to Osan Air Base that sparked months of speculation about whether Washington was stripping the Korean Peninsula of missile defenses to support its military campaign against Iran, […]

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