S Korea orders probe into extra US missiles

 South Korea’s president has ordered an inquiry into the deployment of several additional advanced U-S missile systems in the East Asian country. A spokesman for Moon Jae-in says the president was shocked to hear that four additional THAAD launchers were brought in without being reported to the new government or to the public. Former South Korean president, Park Geun-Hye, who was ousted over a corruption scandal, had allowed the deployment of THAAD as part of an agreement with the U-S. The deployment sparked an angry reaction from China which called it a threat to its national security. The U-S, however, argues the system is needed to counter what it calls threats from North Korea.