Pacific Daily News:
Guam can sleep well at night knowing that a missile shield is stationed permanently on the island, said Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo.
But some residents of South Korea, which is about to get a similar missile defense system through the U.S. military, aren’t convinced it’s a good idea.
Bordallo on Tuesday spoke to a South Korean delegation, led by the country’s Ministry of Defense Deputy Minister of Policy Jeh Seung Yoo, who visited to look at Guam’s missile shield, called the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense ballistic missile defense battery.
The United States and South Korea recently announced they’ve agreed to station a similar missile shield in South Korea, in light of North Korea’s threats, but South Koreans’ response to the decision has been mixed.
Half of South Koreans surveyed by Gallup Poll last week support the THAAD deployment, but about 39 percent oppose it, according to Yonhap news agency.
On Friday, anti-THAAD protesters hurled eggs and water bottles at South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn, The Associated Press reported.
To demonstrate to South Koreans there’s a community that, in Bordallo’s words, doesn’t have a problem with a THAAD presence, the Pentagon allowed a group of South Korean news organizations to gain access to the THAAD site at Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base Monday.
