US deploys anti-ballistic missile defence system to South Korea

TIL Desk/World/Seoul-US deploys anti-ballistic missile defence system to South Korea, US military reported on Tuesday. This even as the UN Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting today after Pyongyang launched at least four ballistic missiles, three of which fell in the sea close to Japan.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the latest missile tests and urged Pyongyang to “refrain from further provocations.” The launches were the latest in a series of test-firings that violate UN resolutions barring Pyongyang from developing missile technology. US Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Twitter that the world “won’t allow” North Korea to continue on its “destructive path.”

South Korea said four missiles were fired from Tongchang County in North Pyongan province into the East Sea — its name for the Sea of Japan. The missiles traveled about 1,000 kilometers and reached an altitude of 260 kilometers, a spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.