US missile defense equipment reaches SKorea site

SEOUL: US troops began delivering a missile defense system that has infuriated China to a deployment site in South Korea on Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions.

Washington is urging Beijing -- Pyongyang's sole major ally -- to do more to rein it in, but the Asian giant has reacted with fury to the planned installation of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.