SEOUL: Seoul said on Wednesday an advanced US missile defense system will be deployed in a remote southern county and will have the capacity to protect two-thirds of the country against feared attacks from the North.

The plan to deploy the powerful system, which fires projectiles to smash into enemy missiles, came last week after the United States placed North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong-Un on its sanctions blacklist for the first time.

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