US Deploying THAAD System to Guam

The Pentagon announced that a THAAD missile defense battery would be shipped to Guam as immediately as possible.

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery would be used to help defend the island from any incoming missiles.

It is one more bit of evidence how seriously the US is taking North Korea's increasing hostility.

The US currently only has two of the systems available, so only will be deploying one of them.

Each battery costs eight hundred million dollars and plans are not in place to obtain another system, until 2015.

Expectations now are that the US will bump the purchase up, as quickly as possible.