BEIJING: China demanded on Tuesday an immediate halt to a controversial US missile shield hours after Washington announced that the defense system was now operational in South Korea.

Washington and Seoul agreed to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery deployment in July in the wake of a string of North Korean missile tests.

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