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US Begins Deployment Of Controversial THAAD Anti-Missile System To South Korea

US Begins Deployment Of Controversial THAAD Anti-Missile System To South Korea

Well that escalated quickly. Just a day after North Korea's test firing of 4 missiles towards US bases in Japan, and hours after North Korea warned the world was "on the brink of nuclear war" due to US-South Korea "maneuvers," CNN reports the first pieces of the controversial US-built missile defense system (designed to mitigate the threat of North Korean missiles) arrived at the Osan Air Base in South Korea Monday night, according to the US military.

North Korea Warns US-South Korea "Maneuvers" Are "Driving [World] Towards Nuclear Disaster"

North Korea Warns US-South Korea "Maneuvers" Are "Driving [World] Towards Nuclear Disaster"

Update: North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean military exercises, which it called "the most undisguised nuclear war maneuvers," are driving the Korean Peninsula and northeast Asia toward "nuclear disaster." The North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, Ja Song Nam, said in a letter to the U.N. Security Council that the U.S. is using nuclear-propelled aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, nuclear strategic bombers and stealth fighters in the joint exercises that began Wednesday.

Trump Revises Travel Ban To Address Legal Issues, Exempts Iraqis - Live Feed

Trump Revises Travel Ban To Address Legal Issues, Exempts Iraqis - Live Feed

Homeland Security's Secretary Kelly, Secretary of State Tillerson, and AG Sessions will be unveiling the Trump administration's all new and improved immigration plan to replace its previous executive order that was suspended by the courts. They will reportedly not be taking questions.

Trump administration officials have said that the new order aims to overcome the legal challenges that resulted in the first immigration ban being blocked by a federal court.

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