It said:

The U.S. secretaries of State and Defense and their south Korean counterparts agreed to strengthen comprehensive and combined defense posture against the "threat of ballistic missiles from north Korea" at the second "two-plus-two" security talks held in Washington in mid June. Their real purpose is to coordinate the missile defense system established by south Korea and U.S. forces in south Korea independently.

This move means that the U.S.-south Korea military alliance shows a new trend of development and seriously affects the future security structure in Northeast Asia and the whole of the Asia-Pacific region.

In June 2009, the U.S. promised south Korea to provide "extended deterrence" for the first time. This specifically involves nuclear umbrella, conventional weapons and missile shield.

In March this year the U.S. assistant secretary of Defense clarified the will to deploy regional anti-ballistic missile shields in Asia and Mideast.

The coordination of the U.S. and south Korean missile shields would signify a step forward not only in carrying out "the U.S. strategy for extended deterrence" but in building a missile shield in the Asia-Pacific region.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the U.S. would increase its troops to be deployed in Asia in a couple of years to come and bolster the deployment of high-tech weapons in the region as its new strategy is focused on it.

Fresh cooperation between the U.S. and south Korea in the field of missile defense will inevitably arouse concern of outside world for its baneful impact.

This cooperation will not only increase the complexity of the issue of security and nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula but cause the proliferation of missile defense technology, thus adversely affecting the international control of armament and prospect of disarmament.

It will, at the same time, deepen the strategic concern among the regional states and even trigger off another regional arms race.

This will evidently have an unpredictably baneful impact on the establishment of a multilateral security mechanism in Northeast Asia.