President Moon Calls for “Provisional Deployment” of THAAD Launchers
|I wonder how much time by President Moon’s staff used thinking of a term to call the deployment of the four remaining THAAD launchers that would still appease their left wing political base?:
On the liberal Moon Jae-in government’s countermeasures against the latest North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile test, the ruling party voiced its consent, but opposition parties called for tougher ones, criticizing the president’s Berlin peace initiative that puts more weight on dialogue with the North than pressure on it.
In an emergency National Security Council meeting convened right after the North’s new ICBM test Friday night, Moon proposed a set of countermeasures, including the temporary deployment of four additional THAAD interceptor launchers, and ordered consultation with the United States on ways to bolster strategic deterrence against the recalcitrant North. The presidential office said later that the provisional deployment does not mean the retraction of a declared environmental impact assessment on the deployment site. [Yonhap]
So basically the Moon administration is doing what the Park administration planned to do with the remaining THAAD launchers without calling it that. What is ironic about this is that the Korea left is supporting President Moon’s decision despite their prior opposition to THAAD.
Will be interesting to see how they clear the road..