U.S. global missile shield continues to expand - consultant to RVSN commander
MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax-AVN) - The circle of participants of the United States global missile shield is expanding, Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin, a consultant to the Commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), told a press conference at the Interfax head office on Tuesday.
"Unfortunately, no one is going to withdraw from the deployment of the U.S. global missile shield, the number of its participants will only increase. At present, parts of the U.S. global missile defense system are deployed on the Danish island of Greenland, in Great Britain, Norway, Japan, Turkey, Spain, and will be soon in Romania and Poland. In the Far East: in Japan; also the addition of South Korea and the Philippines is not ruled out, given the North Korean threat. Australia, too, seems to be willing to deploy some systems," Yesin said.
"So far there has been no information that someone is going to discontinue their participation in the U.S. global missile defense system," he said.