China and South Korea clash over a US missile defence shield, threatening to undermine efforts by the new government in Seoul to overcome longstanding security differences.
China and South Korea have clashed over a US missile defence shield, threatening to undermine efforts by the new government in Seoul to overcome longstanding security differences.China has demanded South Korea to not deploy any more THAAD batteries and limit the use of existing ones
The disagreement over the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system installed in South Korea emerged after an apparently smooth first visit to China by South Korea's Foreign Minister earlier this week. President Yoon Suk-yeol, seeing the system as key to countering North Korean missiles, has vowed to abandon the previous government's promises not to increase THAAD deployments, and not to participate in a US-led global missile shield or create a trilateral military alliance involving Japan.
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