Anti-U.S. Activists Unhappy with Delivery of Equipment to THAAD Base in South Korea
The Yoon administration is demonstrating that all the delays of road access to the THAAD base during the Moon administration was political. This summer access to the site has greatly increased after President Yoon’s election as this recent delivery further demonstrates:
The military delivered equipment to a U.S. THAAD missile defense unit here in the wee hours of Sunday, a civic group said, as the government moves to normalize access to the base despite local residents’ opposition.
The equipment from the U.S. Forces Korea and the South Korean military were brought onto the base in Seongju, 220 kilometers south of Seoul, at around 1:30 a.m., according to the group opposed to the installation of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) unit.
It marked the first time for such items to be delivered on the weekend since May 2021, when the USFK and the defense ministry began sending equipment to remodel troops’ barracks. Around 10 vehicles were delivered on Sunday, including a bulldozer, a fueling vehicle and a van.
Local residents rushed to the site to protest after hearing the sound of the delivery vehicles.
The civic group said the police and the defense ministry had informed them there would be no deliveries during the weekend but used the cover of darkness to make a sudden delivery.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but according to the article ground movements to the THAAD base has increased up to five times a week.
I don’t get why GIKorea keeps regulating their ideological movements as Anti-American crap. They protest and sometimes hate the US for reasonable purposes. You should also subdivide categories as Anti-American and Anti-American crap so what can be reasonable and meaningless. Koreans want to resolve their problems by themselves.
They love Norkistan so much they should emigrate.
@Korean guy, when the usual suspects start protesting Korean Air Force Green Pine and Patriot radars I will stop calling these protests anti-American crap. Would protesters still be blocking the road and making an issue of the THAAD site after all these years if this was a ROK radar site? I highly doubt it.
I think you mean communist pro-nK&pro-China activist…
And Korea guy, clearly the Koreans do not want to handle the situation by themselves, at any time they can end the mutual defense treaty and US forces will leave.
clearly the Koreans do not want to handle the situation by themselves, at any time they can end the mutual defense treaty and US forces will leave.
@Flyingsword
Is the US willing to allow the Republic of Korea to have its own nuclear deterrence?
If so, I believe the ROK and the USA can work out an agreement where the USFK can come home to the US.
We “allow” nK to have theirs….South Korea is a sovereign nation, can do what it wants to. South Korea agreed not to build its own nukes.
South Korea is a sovereign nation, can do what it wants to. South Korea agreed not to build its own nukes.
That’s because the US forced the ROK to give up its nuclear program when Park Junghee was President.
It seems that the ROK Dropers think that it was the South Koreans that asked for THAAD and are scratching their heads on why the South Koreans are making a big fuss over something they asked for.
On the contrary, it was the US which wanted to deploy THAAD in South Korea.
However, the President of the ROK at that time was pursuing a China friendly policy which resulted in large number of Chinese tourists coming to Korea to spend their Yuan and resulted in her being invited to a 2015 Chinese military parade, which she attended.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20150903003253315
Yup, she was more friendly to the Chinese than all of the DPK combined.
So there was some foot dragging regarding THAAD until the North Koreans carried out the H-bomb test.
Then, she suddenly changed her mind resulting in the ‘unexpected’ deployment of the THAADs in South Korea.
Since the deployment was ‘unexpected’ not much consensus was built before the deployment resulting in the mess we see today.
Not only that, the North Koreans have adapted to the THAAD by deploying new weapons such as their version of the Iskander and longer range large calibre rockets, making THAAD, somewhat irrelevant to the defense of South Korea.
What is relevant is the radar because it can look deep into North Korea and provide an early indication of a ballistic missile launch that may head towards the US.
The US can theoretically take THAAD out of Korea and redploy it somewhere else, and with the exception of the hard core pro-US conservative crowd that Yoon tried to appease with the promise of a second THAAD battery, most Koreans won’t shed a tear and will care less if THAAD was pulled out.