Northeast Asia

"[North Korea is] highly creative and highly adaptable. They’re always developing new layers of business. If one of their businesses gets busted, they’ve already been testing others."

[In South Korea] state heavy-handedness has repeatedly irked local communities, particularly when it suggests the bilateral military alliance takes precedence over their livelihoods and self-governance.

I certainly don’t believe THAAD or any missile defense is a panacea, [b]ut if it inhibits North Korea, under some extreme circumstances, from using its capabilities, and instills some confidence in the government of South Korea to defend key assets and population areas in a more integrated fashion, then it’ll be money well spent.

[While the true extent of North Korea's threat toward South Korea is difficult to fathom,] to assume benign intentions would be imprudent.

Regardless of Chinese objections [to the deployment of THAAD], I don’t see South Korea turning back on this decision.