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From Wednesday(9.06) afternoon until y'day morning in Soseong-ri(Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk-do): Dozens of South Korean protesters have been injured in clashes with police over the full deployment of a controversial US missile defence system intended to counter attacks from North Korea. According to South Korean media, 38 people, including six police officers, were injured in the village nearby Seongju, 300km south of Seoul, as preparations were made to install four further terminal high-altitude area defence (THAAD) system batteries at a golf course in the village...(source: Guardian, 9.07)
Here you'll get KCTU's detailed report, incl. lots of pics. Video reports, depicting the anti-THAAD resistance(9.06~07) you can watch here(a short version by VoP) and here(a very long version - about 9 hrs - by NewsMin)
Related articles:
☞ Anti-THAAD protesters violently dispersed... (Xinhua, 9.07)
☞ Seongju residents vow to continue protest (K. Times, 9.07)
☞ Moon gov't under fire from civic groups over THAAD.. (Hankyoreh, 9.08)
☞ THAAD deployment fans controversy.. (K. Herald, 9.08)
Today's Yonhap News reported in the early afternoon(KST) the following: The U.S. military will deploy additional missile interceptor launchers to its base in a southern town early Thursday despite strong opposition from residents and activists, according to local villagers. The residents' group in Seonju said Wednesday they have confirmed the information through various channels about the planned deployment of four launchers of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system at 2 a.m. on Thursday, in addition to two that are already installed...
The U.S. military plans to deploy the four remaining launchers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in the southeastern county of Seongju, Thursday, despite strong opposition from residents and activists...(Korea Times, 9.06)
South Korea’s rural town of Seongju was tense Wednesday evening, as activists and protestors converged and villagers built up a barricade with tractors and vehicles to block the imminent arrival of the equipment of a controversial US missile defense system...
Before the official announcement of the deployment schedule Wednesday, activists and protestors opposing the weapon system started to converge in Seongju to block the launchers’ arrival in the area. “Four additional THAAD launchers will be brought into Seongju early tomorrow (Thursday) morning,” a protestors’ group said in a text message sent out to residents and activists before 3 p.m., citing multiple tipoffs about the deployment schedule. “We ask all of you to gather here by 6 p.m.”(K. Herald, 9.06)
Related reports:
☞ 사드 발사대 4기 추가 배치 소식에 발칵 뒤집힌 성주 (한겨레, 9.06)
☞ "결사항전" 성주 주민들, 사드기지 입구 봉쇄 돌입 (OmN, 9.06)
☞ 국방부 “7일 중 사드 발사대 반입”… (민중의소리, 9.06)
뉴스민TV is reporting live from the "frontline" and you can watch it here.
Today's Yonhap News reported the following: A Seoul court on Tuesday dismissed local residents' request to temporarily invalidate the government's offering of land to host a U.S. missile defense system.
In April, 396 people filed an administrative suit against the provision of a former golf course in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang Province, to U.S. Forces Korea, claiming that it is a violation of the law on state-owned land. The also asked the court to suspend the land provision pending the trial.
The Seoul Administrative Court turned down their request for suspension. The court said the ownership of the land for the installation of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) belongs to the state and that it is a public asset to be used for military purposes, not by the public...(more you can read here)
Yesterday's Hankyoreh headlined the following: "North Korea offers message of peace at China-Northeast Asia Expo"...
And today, just one day later...
The nuclear test will create maximum embarrassment for Xi Jinping, the Chinese president... [Because]Xi was only hours from opening the summit of the BRICS nations – the association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – when news of the test emerged...(source: Guardian, 9.03)
PS. For the audience in N. Korea's neighborhood, particularly China's north-eastern counties(*): Kim Jong-un promissed "The Nuclear Weapons Institute of the DPRK gave the following statement in connection with the perfect success in the test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM... did it have any adverse impact on the surrounding ecological environment."(source: KCNA, 9.03)
* No comment...
The test was widely felt in north-east China and rocked some cities for as long as eight seconds, according to reports and accounts on social media. It was felt as far away as the city of Changchun, about 250 miles (400km north-west of North Korea’s test site at Punggye-ri, according to state broadcaster CCTV...(source: Guardian, 9.03)
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