Non-weapon materials brought into THAAD base after dispersal of protesters

October 22, 2020

Yonhap News Agency:

 

The defense ministry on Thursday brought non-weapon materials and construction equipment onto a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) base, in central South Korea, after riot police dispersed protesters opposed to the deployment of the American anti-missile defense system.

The shipments transported into the base for the THAAD system in the central town of Seongju, about 300 kilometres southeast of Seoul, included daily necessities for base troops, and construction equipment and materials to be used to improve their living facilities, according to the ministry.

Their transportation was completed after riot police dispersed about 70 Seongju residents and civic activists, who had occupied a small bridge leading to the THAAD base, from early morning, to block any vehicles from approaching the military facility…

 

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