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Yesterday's Korea Times reported the following: Presidential frontrunners Moon Jae-in and Ahn Cheol-soo have virtually dropped their opposition to the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile shield in South Korea in an apparent bid to appeal to conservative voters. Moon, a former chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, said Tuesday that South Korea can "push ahead" with the ongoing installation of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense(THAAD) battery...

On the same day A senior Chinese diplomat on held a second round of talks with South Korean politicians on the bilateral dispute over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system here. Wu Dawei, Beijing's chief negotiator on North Korea's nuclear program, met with Rep. Kim Moo-sung, election committee chief of the splinter conservative Bareun Party... During the talks at the National Assembly, the two sides apparently repeated their positions on the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, according to Kim... "The Chinese keep expressing their opposition to the THAAD deployment, but I said the THAAD issue is already a finished story. Its deployment has already begun, so I said it would be best not to talk about it anymore," the lawmaker said... (source: Yonhap, 4.12)

Exactly: "The THAAD issue is already a finished story"!

Why? Because... on the same day the S.K. military started to move the equipment into the planned THAAD deployment site. But to avoid a (possibly violent)confrontation with the local anti-THAAD resistance the stuff was/is delivered by airlift...

And while during this process - at least - the local anti-THAAD resistance became "powerless"... it seems that Moon Jae-in &co. came to the conclusion: We don't need to support them anymore!!

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