Video from Seongju, South Korea showing US Army trucks driving through the protesting villagers (with 8,000 South Korean police deployed to keep the streets open) delivering the radars and interceptors for the THAAD 'missile defense' system to the new base.
Especially watch the last bit of the video so you can get a glimpse of the suffering the US is causing with this deployment.
One South Korean media source writes:
It happened like a sneak attack in the dead of night. All set procedures were utterly disregarded. With US Forces Korea and the Ministry of National Defense proceeding on Apr. 26 with the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system, the question for many now is just who made the decision and when. Whoever it was - and whatever their intentions - is likely to face accusations of interfering in the May 9 presidential election, where the THAAD issue was certain to be a key point of contention.
It's clear that this deployment was timed to be done before the coming May 9 elections as it now appears that a progressive candidate is leading in the polls. Unless the US interferes in the election, which is quite possible, then the newly elected president would have been likely to slow down this THAAD deployment. Thus Washington was eager to get it done now at all cost.
The Seongju melon farming community is worried about the THAAD radar's electromagnetic waves impact on their health and their crops. They should also be very concerned about toxic rocket fuel pollution because everywhere there is such a rocket fuel storage facility in the US there are countless stories about contamination of local water supplies. See more on this here
The Seongju community was previously a rock-ribbed conservative area that voted overwhelmingly for the last right-wing government. But the THAAD deployment in their community has changed all of that. They've now not only joined the peace movement in South Korea - but in many respects they are leading the movement today.
Not giving up leaders from five different religions in South Korea today began an indefinite hunger strike in solidarity against THAAD. They declared the strike in front of the United States Embassy in Seoul.
The US claims that they are 'protecting' the people of South Korea and bringing stability to the Korean peninsula. But that is all lies. The truth is that the people want the US military to leave Korea and when that happens the world will see a serious reduction of tensions in the region.
It is the US military that is driving the Asia-Pacific arms race (something that the military industrial complex knows and loves) and it is the US military 'pivot' of 60% of Pentagon forces into the region that is now the real trigger for WW III.
"Is the US really a friend when it deploys THAAD like a thief in the night during a presidential election? Or is South Korea a US colony?” asked Kim Chung-hwan, the 57-year-old co-chair of the Seongju Committee.
Bruce
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Trump is now demanding the Koreans pay for THAAD out of their own not wealthy pockets.
Kind of like having slaves pay rent on their shackles.
I know Trump didn't start the process,the ones who did are no longer in office either in America or Korea, but he sure is continuing it and making some really aggressive demands that the ROK pay for the privilege of obeying his orders. The RT debate is a smokescreen for this atrocity.
Sleight of hand on a grand scale.
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