“We must do away with this victim mentality and pessimistic thinking”, she said.
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The United States has repeatedly tried to rebuff anger from China about Seoul’s move to host a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) unit with the USA military.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency recently reported that the country may seek to buy Raytheon SM-3 ballistic defense missiles from the U.S. as tensions rise with North Korea and in the broader Pacific region.
Pyongyang sees the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) as part and parcel of a plan for armed intrusion into the DPRK.
Almost 30,000 North Koreans have fled poverty and repression at home to settle in the capitalist South.
“THAAD should not be deployed at all, not just in Seongju, but anywhere in South Korea”, said Yoo Ji-won, a 63-year-old melon farmer.
Seoul and Washington abruptly announced their unilateral decision last month to install one THAAD battery by the end of next year, causing strong backlashes from opposition lawmakers and residents at home as well as from neighboring countries.
Also in the speech, Park stressed that North Korea’s nuclear ambition can never be tolerated, urging Pyongyang immediately to halt its development of nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction, and its provocations against South Korea. It is meant to destroy possible North Korean missiles. In 2014, a UN Commission of Inquiry published findings documenting systematic human rights abuses in the country, including forced labor, torture, extrajudicial killings, arrests, and more.
The U.N. sanctions do not directly address North Korean human rights abuses, but additional USA sanctions imposed in July do target individuals for their role in serious human rights violations, hunting down defectors or censorship in North Korea.
The two South Korean men met the North Korean in the Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, and conspired to smuggle two containers of tires into the North, prosecutors said.
Her comments came as both Koreas celebrated the anniversary of the peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945.
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“Traitor Park should bear in mind that her desperate moves to escape ruin through terrible tongue-lashing and reckless confrontation will only precipitate the miserable end of her fate, cursed and censured by all Koreans”, the spokesman said in a statement. “I look forward to the visit”, Milley said.
