{"id":4027,"date":"2022-08-11T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:19:25","slug":"south-korea-china-clash-over-us-missile-shield-complicating-conciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/national\/2022\/08\/11\/news\/4027\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea, China clash over US missile shield, complicating conciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, left, talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during their meeting in Qingdao, China earlier this week. (South Korea Foreign Ministry via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SEOUL, Broadcasting News Corporation : China and South Korea clashed on Thursday over a US missile defense shield, threatening to undermine efforts by the new government in Seoul to overcome longstanding security differences. The disagreement over the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system emerged after an apparently smooth first visit to China by South Korea\u2019s foreign minister this week. China, contending THAAD\u2019s powerful radar could peer into its airspace, curbed trade and cultural imports after Seoul announced its deployment in 2016, dealing a major blow to relations. South Korea\u2019s presidential office said on Thursday the system stationed in the country is a means of self-defense, according to a briefing transcript, after Beijing demanded Seoul not deploy additional batteries and limit the use of existing ones. President Yoon Suk-yeol, seeing the system as key to countering North Korean missiles, has vowed to abandon the previous government\u2019s promises not to increase THAAD deployments, participate in a US-led global missile shield or create a trilateral military alliance involving Japan. On the campaign trail, the conservative Yoon pledged to buy another THAAD battery, but since taking office in May, his government has focussed on what officials call \u201cnormalizing\u201d the operation of the existing, US-owned and operated system. South Korea\u2019s Foreign Minister Park Jin and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, meeting on Tuesday, explored ways to reopen denuclearization negotiations with North Korea and resume cultural exports, such as K-pop music and movies, to China. A Wang spokesman said on Wednesday the two had \u201cagreed to take each other\u2019s legitimate concerns seriously and continue to prudently handle and properly manage this issue to make sure it does not become a stumbling block to the sound and steady growth of bilateral relations.\u201d The Chinese spokesman told a briefing the THAAD deployment in South Korea \u201cundermines China\u2019s strategic security interest.\u201d Park, however, told Wang that Seoul would not abide by the 2017 agreement, called the \u201cThree Nos,\u201d as it is not a formal pledge or agreement, South Korea\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement. China also insists that South Korea abide by \u201cone restriction\u201d \u2014 limiting the use of existing THAAD batteries. Seoul has never acknowledged that element, but on Wednesday, Wang\u2019s spokesman emphasised that China attaches importance to the position of \u201cthree Nos and one restriction.\u201d During Park\u2019s visit to the eastern port city of Qingdao, the Chinese Communist Party-owned Global Times praised Yoon for showing \u201cindependent diplomacy and rationality toward China\u201d by not meeting face to face with visiting US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the newspaper warned that the THAAD issue is \u201ca major hidden danger that cannot be avoided in China-South Korea ties.\u201d News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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