A private association aiming to prevent the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), composed of about 100 civic groups, held a press conference in front of the headquarters to protest against the THAAD installation in their homeland and the ongoing discussion between South Korea and Japan to share military intelligence.
Protesters held placards of anti-THAAD and anti-military accord with Japan, screaming for their oppositions to the diplomatic and defense affairs advocated by President Park Geun-hye who is grappling with a political scandal involving her longtime confidante and former aides.
"The Park Geun-hye government already lost credibility and qualification to deal with diplomatic and defense matters as well as domestic affairs," the association said in its joint statement demanding President Park immediately step down to take responsibility for the scandal.
Park's decades-long friend, Choi Soon-sil, has been placed under custody on charges of peddling undue influence and meddling in government affairs behind the scenes though Choi has no public position.
The association said the South Korea-Japan military intelligence deal would only serve to build a trilateral missile defense (MD) system in Northeast Asia, strongly demanded by the United States and Japan.
[Xinhua/china.org.cn]
9/11/16
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