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Residents in Seongju County vowed today(7.17) to extend their organized struggle against the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery there. One day earlier(7.16) some 200 representatives from the public and private sectors in the county in North Gyeongsang Province set up an Anti-THAAD Struggle Committee to stage a long-term, systematic fight against the deployment of the anti-missile unit. The committee members said they would continue rallies until the gov't withdraws its THAAD deployment plan...

Already two days earlier(7.15) Seongju residents became really angry and changed from defensive/pleading MO into (a kind of)DIRECT ACTION...

Related reports in Korean(incl. lots of pics and some videos) and English:
☞ 사드배치 설득하러 왔다 주민 분노만 키우고 도망친 국무총리 (민중의소리)
☞ PM and Defense Minister pelted with eggs and water on visit to Seongju (Hankyoreh)

However, the intra-Korean solidarity to support the struggle against the THAAD deployment is - to put it lightly - (possibly a bit)LUKE-WARM: "On Saturday, some 300 members of civic groups staged a joint demonstration in downtown Seoul against the stationing plan..."(K. Herald, 7.17)

Related reports in Korean you'll get here and here...