Recently, two neighbors of my country, North Korea and South Korea, have made considerable military movements. North Korea has announced to the outside world that North Korea already has nuclear weapon , and that it is a preemptive move to use nuclear weapons. In other words, if the enemy threatens North Korea's survival or territorial security, North Korea will take the lead in using nuclear weapons. Although the nuclear weapons developed by North Korea are illegal and their specifications have not been proved by many outsiders, they have caused a lot of sensation.
South Korea is not idle either. According to foreign media reports, South Korea's Yoon Seo-yue government has effectively communicated with the United States about the restart of the THAAD system. The deployment location of THAAD is in Xingju County, Sangbei Province. The land provided to the US military this time is as much as 44 square meters, which is accumulated from 30 square meters in the previous period, with a total of 74 square meters of land for the US military to deploy the THAAD system.
First of all, you need to understand the location of Sungjujung-gun, Sangbei Province. This place is located in the southeast of Seoul and is located in the hinterland of South Korea. It has convenient transportation around it and is close to the important city of South Korea, Daegu . There are two reasons why THAAD system is deployed in this place. First, Xingzhou County is located in the rear of South Korea, and the deployment of THAAD in this place is relatively safe and confidential. Second, the radiation effect of Xingzhou County on China, Russia, Japan and North Korea is the radiation effect of THAAD in Xingzhou. In other words, the deployment of THAAD in Xingzhou can intercept the attacks of missiles from the four sides, especially missile systems with nuclear warheads and .
THAAD system is a land-based anti-missile system of the United States. It was developed by three US arms contractors Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Thor. Its system has two main components, one is a command vehicle and fire control radar , and the other is 6 8-mounted launch devices and 48 interceptor missiles. Deployment of THAAD system can form a diversified system tactically.
The United States deployed the THAAD system in South Korea in 2017. At that time, South Korean President Park Geun-hye ignored the opposition of China and the people and insisted on jointly deploying the THAAD anti-missile system with the United States. As a politician, Park Geun-hye did not have the wise spirit. She obviously misjudged the serious impact of THAAD system deployment on China-South Korea relations. At that time, South Korea was one of the few countries with a trade surplus with China. In other words, exporting South Korea's goods to China could make a big profit.
However, after the deployment of the THAAD system, the market share of many Korean commercial brands in China was seriously affected, and the South Korean tourism industry was deeply affected, which caused a significant impact on the South Korean economy. Later, after Moon Jae-in came to power, the arrangement and upgrading of the THAAD system was on the standby state, and the implementation of three unstoppable restrictions were implemented, and THAAD was not deployed, the US anti-missiles were not added, and the US, Japan and South Korea were not upgraded to the military alliance of the three countries. Because of such a promise, China-South Korea relations had room for maneuver.
Recently Yoon Seok-yeol 's decision overturned his predecessor and put the deployment of the THAAD system on the surface again. In addition to the recent successful North Korean nuclear bomb test and South Korea was faced with a direct impact, there is also part of the reason for the tension in the Taiwan Strait. South Korea is in a link in the US Asia-Pacific military chain and naturally cannot stay out of the matter. Therefore, it wants to use the THAAD system to increase its own security factor to avoid the impact of missiles in the local area.
is just that in this way, is it really beneficial to its own security to deploy THAAD system in this way? No, you should know that the THAAD system deployed by South Korea has a radar detection wavelength of up to 2,000 kilometers, and can directly penetrate mainland China, not to mention Japan and Russia. In other words, it is equivalent to setting up monitors in China, Japan and Russia, which actually exacerbates tensions in regional situations.
However, even if South Korea deploys the THAAD system, it will be useless. In the face of China's Dongfeng 17 hypersonic missile, the THAAD system is just a decoration. Dongfeng 17 missile was unveiled in 2019 and is a powerful tool to deal with the enemy anti-missile system . The hypersonic speed can reach 10 times, which is more than 8 times higher than the maximum speed of the THAAD system. In other words, the THAAD anti-missile system has not yet reacted, and the Dongfeng 17 missile has been fired.
Moreover, the launch method of the Dongfeng 17 missile is also quite special. It is not a parabolic launch, but a vertical launch, directly entering the atmosphere and undergoing a change of orbit and falling, which is the famous Qian Xuesen ballistic, and the enemy's anti-missile system cannot intercept it at all. Not only is the THAAD system deployed by South Korea difficult to stop, but Japan's Aegis anti-missile system is also difficult to intercept.
In other words, knowing that the THAAD system is not worth mentioning, South Korea still insists on deploying the THAAD system, and its primary goal should be to prevent North Korea. However, it will inevitably affect China-South Korea relations again, and the entire incident still has a relatively large negative impact.
