THAAD in ROK: Potential Harm Outweighs Benefits

The high-altitude system would achieve none of its stated goals if deployed, but would shake the fragile trust of Beijing and Moscow toward Washington. The US should learn some lessons from the Cuban missile crisis and NATO’s eastward expansion, understand and respect other countries’ security concerns, and take some concrete measures to ease instead of aggravate the tension in the Korean Peninsula.

Fan Gaoyue retired senior colonel via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/23o3bou