Deterrence under nuclear asymmetry: THAAD and the prospects for missile defense on the Korean peninsula

• Main Authors: KIM, Inwook, PARK, Soul
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Security dilemma; ballistic missile defense (BMD); terminal high altitude area defense (THAAD); extended deterrence; North Korea; Asian Studies; International Relations; Military, War, and Peace
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2751; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4008/viewcontent/Deterrence_under_nuclear_asymmetry.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The 2016 decision to deploy Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South Korea has generated multitude of intensely politicized issues and has proved highly controversial. This has made it challenging to alleviate, let alone clarify, points of analytical and policy tensions. We instead disag...