S.Korea missiles not a threat to China: US

The US anti-missile system in South Korea does not pose a threat to China, the State Department has told Beijing.

The United States has told China that Washington's deployment of the anti-missile defence system THAAD in South Korea is a defensive measure against North Korean threats and does not pose a threat to China, the US State Department says.

"We have been very clear in our conversations with China that this is not meant to be a threat, and is not a threat, to them or any other power in the region," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said at a news briefing on Tuesday.