South Korea Suspends Missile Shield Deployment, Yonhap Says
- Four remaining Thaad launchers ‘will have to wait’: Official
- President Moon wants to assess environmental impact of battery
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South Korea’s new president is suspending the installation of remaining components of a controversial U.S. missile shield pending an environmental impact assessment, Yonhap News reported, leaving the system incomplete while North Korea steps up its missile development.
“We are not saying the two launchers and other equipment that has already been deployed should be withdrawn,” a senior official at President Moon Jae-in’s office said Wednesday, according to Yonhap. “But those that have yet to be deployed will have to wait."