SEOUL: North Korea’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test has prompted the South to speed up the deployment of a US missile defense system, Seoul’s defense minister said Saturday, despite strong protests from China.

The US military will also roll out “strategic assets” to the South following the North’s missile test late Friday, Song Young-Moo said.

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