North Korea provocations are making Seoul reconsider intelligence sharing strategies with Tokyo.
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However, Seoul’s stance changed on Thursday.
The article also claimed that earlier the US and South Korea promised to negotiate with China on the deployment of the THAAD system, but later turned hostile and announced the rushed decision.
If South Korea drifts into the orbit of the USA and Japan, China’s influence on the Korean peninsula could be badly compromised.
“We haven’t seen any written bans from the administration, but people in the industry are quite anxious and many have said they would avoid taking on any work that involves South Korean dramas recently”, one source told the South China Morning Post.
Last month, South Korea had announced the Thaad system will be deployed in the county, triggering protests from residents who are anxious about the possible negative impact of Thaad’s powerful radar system.
With the installation of an anti-missile missile system that can hardly cover Seoul but is able to spy on China and Russia’s Far East, the United States aims to defend nobody in East Asia, but its insatiable appetite for hegemony and military advantage.
Highlighting the defensive nature of the missile interception system, Ms Park has repeatedly defended the deployment plan as a “self-defence” measure to counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats.
Xu Guangyu, a retired PLA major general, said China would be pushed into a corner if South Korea and Japan widened their collusion, giving China’s leaders no choice but to lean towards a Beijing-Moscow alliance to provide a counterbalance.
The US, South Korea, and Japan in December 2014 signed a memorandum of understanding on sharing and safeguarding classified information on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.
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“This would in turn trigger a stronger backlash from China and Russian Federation and lead to an arms race in Northeast Asia”.
