Originally Posted by
Geriaviator
Looking at the weapons being withdrawn from Korea makes me wonder why any country should buy American weaponry in future.
The Americans still have some troops in Korea, so your assumption of that THAAD being South Korean kit is well off base.
The US moving their own asset to a different theater isn't any thing new.
It would be the same as moving a couple of destroyers that are home ported in Yokosuka (Seventh Fleet) into the Arabian Sea (Fifth Fleet) for an operation.
(Example: the US moved most of the Seventh Fleet ships to the Persian Gulf for Desert Storm)
Were that an asset acquired and owned by the South Korean government, it would still be there unless the Korean Government chose to aid Jordan/UAE or whomever.
In short, TURIN is trolling again and you bit.
From the Guardian, a few years back...
Early on a spring morning, camouflaged trucks carrying the US-made terminal high-altitude area defense (THAAD) missile-defence system rolled into Seongju, as the country’s government ignored protests from locals who said the deployment would make them a target for Pyongyang’s ballistic missiles. The conservative government in Seoul, backed by Washington, insisted that Thaad was the most effective way to locate and destroy North Korean missiles before they threatened the South and the 28,500 US troops stationed there. The deployment also
angered China and Russia, which said Thaad’s powerful radar could compromise their security.