ignores China's security concerns, and South Korea accelerates the deployment of the THAAD base, becoming the focus of public attention.
9, Yonhap News Agency quoted South Korean diplomatic departments and military personnel as saying that the Joint Committee of the " Agreement on the Status of the US Military in South Korea" signed a document on the 8th of this month, and South Korea once again provided 400,000 square meters of land in Sungju County, North Gyeongsang Province for the deployment of the "THAAD" anti-missile system. With the 330,000 square meters approved in 2017, the land provided by South Korea to the United States to deploy " THAAD " has reached 730,000 square meters.
South Korea actively supplies land to the United States. The deployment of the THAAD will be completed.
Korean media reported that the completion of the land supply procedure this time shows that the procedures required for the normal operation of the THAAD base have entered the final stage. It is reported that the South Korean government will aim to complete the environmental impact assessment work by March next year. After the environmental impact assessment is over, the US military can start construction on the land obtained this time.
In fact, Yong Seok-yeol The government has expressed its attitude to normalize the "THAAD" base since its early days of its rule. In early August, the South Korean Presidential Office proposed that the interruption procedures in the past few years were quickly advanced after the end of August to restore the normalization of the THAAD.
South Korea suddenly accelerated its deployment of THAAD, which was behind the continuous urging of the United States. The reason why the US is anxious is that special commentator Wu Xuelan pointed out that in order to promote the " Indo-Pacific Strategy ", the US side has increased its military presence in Asia. Therefore, promoting the deployment of THAAD is the established goal. When Yoon Seok-hye succeeded in the opposing THAAD, Moon Jae-in became the leader of the South Korean side, this matter was put on the agenda.
Of course, a slap cannot be slapped. In Wu Xuelan's view, after the "pro-American faction" Yoon Seo-yeon's government came to power, cooperating with the US on the THAAD issue, even felt a bit like "putting to his arms and holding it in his arms". After all, it is to narrow the relationship with the United States and enhance South Korea's status in the Asia-Pacific region.
In April this year, after Yoon Seo-yeol was elected president of South Korea, he sent a South Korea-US policy consultation delegation to visit the United States before he officially took office, and held talks with US Assistant for National Security Affairs Sullivan. After the meeting, the South Korean delegation said that they conveyed South Korea's willingness to strengthen its alliance with the United States. Wu Xuelan believes that the Yoon Seo-yue government takes strengthening the South Korea-US alliance as its diplomatic axis, so it is eager to "express loyalty" to the United States on the THAAD issue.
On the other hand, Yoon Seok-yeol took office for only 4 months, and the national support rate plummeted. The ruling National Power Party, which it led, was unable to control the parliament, and five cabinet-level officials were forced to resign due to nepotism, sexual harassment and other moral negligence allegations. Wu Xuelan believes that he faces many domestic challenges. At this time, Yoon Seo-yeol also hopes to "add points" on the Korean Peninsula issue by accelerating the deployment of the "THAAD" and "added points" to improve his reputation in the country.
Once the THAAD is implemented, will the South Korean side still be the leader?
It is worth noting that Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Xing Haiming said in an interview with South Korean media earlier that among all the allies in the United States, South Korea is geographically closest to China. Once THAAD is landed in South Korea, it will become the air defense system , which is deployed by the United States in all alliances, to China. THAAD's X-band radar can detect mainland China in depth. In this regard, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly reiterated its position that the US deployment of THAAD in South Korea has damaged China's strategic security, and China cannot ignore it.
In response to China's security concerns, South Korea has repeatedly claimed that the deployment of "THAAD" is not aimed at China. However, Wu Xuelan pointed out that the THAAD X-band radar reaches two to three thousand kilometers, and it can detect the missile launched by most parts of mainland China, which means that the United States also has intelligence, and China's lack of strategic security is completely reasonable. Moreover, South Korea does not have complete military sovereignty and can only be subject to US command in the South Korea-US military alliance. Once the deployment of THAAD is completed, South Korea's so-called promise of "not targeting China" can only become empty talk.
Yoon Seok-yue deals with the " balance technique " between China and the United States, facing a test
Outsiders have noticed that since the Yoon Seok-yue government took office for four months, it has strengthened the South Korea-US alliance and eased with Japan, while also caring about maintaining relations with China.
In early August this year, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin visited China. This was the first senior official to visit China since the Yoon Seok-yeo government came to power. South Korean media reported that the focus of Park Jin's visit is to express South Korea's position on the chip issue and eliminate China's doubts.
Previously, US House Speaker Pelosi visited Taiwan and visited South Korea. Yoon Seo-young and Park Jin missed their meeting with Pelosi because of their "vacancies" and "outside visits" respectively, which attracted the attention of international public opinion.
However, in the face of the US's step-by-step pressing, Yoon Seo-yeo is indeed facing difficult challenges in dealing with whether the "balance technique" between China and the United States can still achieve the balance he expected.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce of China on September 19, South Korea's actual investment in China increased by 58.9% in the first eight months of this year, nearly 30% surpassing Germany, the second place. Experts predict that the bilateral trade volume between China and South Korea is expected to exceed US$400 billion this year.
The outside world is worried that the deployment of THAAD will affect the healthy development of China-South Korea relations. In response, Wu Xuelan said that the "THAAD" system threatens China's strategic security and China will never sit idly by.
Recalling the 2017 event, Park Geun-hye actively cooperated with the US to deploy "THAAD" during her tenure as South Korea's president, which caused Sino-South Korea relations to fall into a trough, and South Korea's Lotte Group's business in China, which provided land to the US, also plummeted. After Moon Jae-in took office as the president of South Korea, he learned from his predecessor's lessons and made a "three no and one limit" commitment to China, saying that South Korea will not join the US anti-missile system and will not consider additional deployment of the "THAAD" system. But if Yoon Seo-young doesn't take it as a warning, "disregarding China's security interests and wanting to pay money from the pockets of Chinese consumers, China will never be the sucker," said Wu Xuelan.
(Look at the news Knews reporter Song Yi Li Yao)
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