SK punishes aide in furor over THAAD
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A top South Korean defense official was suspended yesterday for deliberately failing to report to new liberal President Moon Jae-in the arrival of several more launchers for a contentious American missile defense system, Moon’s office said.
Moon’s conservative predecessor Park Geun-hye had allowed the United States to deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system to deal with North Korean nuclear threats.
A THAAD battery normally operated with six launchers, and two of them were publicly installed in a southeastern South Korean town in late April, days before Moon took office on May 10.
Last week, Moon’s office said it had found that four more launchers had since arrived in South Korea, but that defense officials didn’t mention them in policy briefings they gave in late May. Moon demanded a probe, calling the incident “very shocking.”
During the election campaign, Moon said he would review a system that has enraged not only Pyongyang, but also China, Seoul’s largest trading partner.
Moon’s office said that an investigation found the deputy minister for defense policy Wee Seung-ho had ordered ministry officials not to write clearly about the four launchers in policy reports.
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