Seoul: Seoul brushed aside US President Donald Trump’s suggestion it should pay for a US$1bil (RM4.4bil) missile defence system the two allies are installing in South Korea to guard against threats from the North.
The first parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system have already been delivered to a former golf course in the South – infuriating China – at a time of heightened tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes.
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