President Moon Calls THAAD Deployment In South Korea Temporary
Can someone please define what temporary means? Is the North Korean missile threat to South Korea just going to magically go away sometime soon to where the THAAD system will no longer be needed?:
South Korean President Moon Jae-in defended the government’s decision to fully deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system here Friday, saying it was an inevitable decision to protect his people from evolving nuclear and missile provocations from North Korea.
The president, however, hinted at possible changes in the future, calling it only a temporary decision.
“While ignoring our government and the international community’s repeated demands and warnings, North Korea staged its sixth nuclear test following a series of ballistic missile launches. And due to these developments, our security situation has become more serious than ever,” the president said in a released statement.
“Therefore, the government reached a decision that it could no longer delay the temporary deployment of THAAD to prevent war on the Korean Peninsula and protect the lives and safety of its people,” he added. [Yonhap]
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Two possibilities here. First, Moon is simply shovelling the word “temporary” into the statement as a sop to his base, i.e., it has no meaning. Or, second, he really believes that something will magically change, negotiations will start, and somehow, he’s not clear yet just how, US forces will no longer be needed. And the north and south brothers will fall into each other’s arms. Personally, I think he’s in love with option two, but it’s one of those deals where every time he reaches out to grab it, it moves farther away. Joshua Stanton calls it his “Moonshadow policy.”
Temporary is still the best weasel word there is. Anything from 30 minutes until the heat death of the universe is “temporary.”
Temporary means until his commie butt is thrown out of office. Then it becomes a permenant measure.