Foreign policy experts say North Korea presents the most imminent threat to the United States.
Six trailers carrying parts of the THAAD system were taken to a deployment site at a South Korean golf course.
"The move [on Wednesday] was made to secure some operational capability of what is available of the THAAD system", Seoul's defense ministry said. North Korea's nuclear and missile threat is perhaps the most serious security challenge confronting U.S. President Donald Trump. The Seoul area, however, remains excluded from the THAAD safeguards.
The Seoul Defence Ministry said South Korea and the U.S. made efforts to rapidly secure an operational capability of the THAAD system to respond to what it called the nuclear and missile threats from North Korea. However, there are still some criticisms about the THAAD deployment.
He said providing "credible combat power" was the best way to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Chinese tourist travel to South Korea has also been banned. The THAAD system would be useless in a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
"Any deployment that completely ignores appropriate processes must be suspended now, and the final decision should be made after consultation between South Korea and the US", he said.
The system has been long-planned but the overnight deployment was ahead of the expected schedule, surprising some South Koreans and sparking protests by hundreds of residents.
"Although the hasty deployment of THAAD disturbs the global sanctions on North Korea, China should not send favourable signals to Pyongyang out of its anger toward Seoul". There are two reasons. With this radar, the entire northeast region of China could be under constant surveillance. In Berlin Wednesday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said North Korea must suspend its nuclear activities, but "on the other side, the large-scale military maneuvers in Korean waters should be halted".
The system, made by Lockheed Martin Corp., is created to destroy short- and-medium ranged ballistic missiles at high altitudes in their "terminal" phase, as they descend.
Yun will also hold talks with the United Nations secretary-general and Henry Kissinger, former USA secretary of state, to discuss ways to denuclearize the North. -China cooperation, without which Korean issues can not be resolved.
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Amid alarm over North Korea's expanding nuclear weapons and missile arsenal, Washington and Seoul are speeding ahead with the installment of an advanced US anti-missile system in South Korea to cope with the growing threats.
After the first summit ended, there was neither a joint press statement nor press conference. It vowed victory in a "death-defying struggle against the US imperialists". "But for the North Korean leadership to abandon its nuclear and missile programs, that would mean revolutionary change".
The United States also maintains 28,500 troops in South Korea to help deter any North Korean aggression.
China's push to use its trading clout to hurt North Korea is starting to be felt as new figures show a sharp drop in imports.
Pentagon officials have stressed to Trump that there are no easy options for military intervention in North Korea.
Trump, like presidents before him, faces hard options.
Overall, the summit was partially successful, and the second summit has been agreed to be held in Beijing. On Monday, Trump called North Korea a global threat and "a problem that we have to finally solve". They heard sobering responses. The two need to respect each other's core interests and make concessions and compromises.
China has opposed the deployment, saying the system's radar could provide a new way to spy on its military and that THAAD missiles could undercut China's nuclear deterrent. -China cooperation, hopefully, can find a common approach through a resolution of the THAAD dispute.
Sanctions haven't forced Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear efforts, but a targeted USA attack to take out its weapons program risks a wider war along a heavily militarized border near where tens of millions of South Koreans live.
"The United States seeks stability and the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula".
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