President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

The THAAD missile defense system is shaking up the global power balance, and here's why China and North Korea are deeply concerned. Designed to intercept and destroy missiles at hypersonic speeds ...

Further, using THAAD against hypersonic weapons is entirely unproven. Western analysts remain skeptical. They highlight recent failures involving North Korea’s Hwasong-16 IRBM, leading them to ...

Why China Opposes Thaad in South Korea The U.S. has begun deploying a controversial missile-defense system, known as Thaad, to South Korea, a day after Pyongyang launched four ballistic missiles.

Plans to place the Thaad system in South Korea have been mooted for months, ostensibly in response to North Korea’s widely condemned nuclear bomb and other missile tests. “We oppose the Thaad ...

Lockheed Martin has received a Missile Defense Agency recompete contract worth $2.8 billion to develop the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, weapon system. According to an award ...

Lee has criticized deployment of US-made THAAD missile defenses, which Washington says are meant to protect against North Korea but which China sees as a provocation. South Korea's left has long ...

Footage on social media showed what security sources later confirmed as the firing of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery missile to intercept a Houthi attack from Yemen early on ...