Environmental Assessment for THAAD Battery in Korea Has Not Started

My guess would be that the Moon administration does not want this environmental assessment to begin in order to keep the perception that the THAAD deployment is “temporary”:

South Korea has yet to conduct a full-scale environmental survey of the site of an advanced U.S. anti-missile battery, sources said Sunday, amid lingering opposition from local residents and complaints from China. 

U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) completed installing a full six-launcher Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery at a base in the southern provincial town of Seongju last year in an effort to cope better with growing missile threats from North Korea.

The installation began under the previous administration in 2017 after a scaled-back environmental impact study. Later that year, the government of current President Moon Jae-in took office and decided to implement a full-scale environmental assessment survey of the 700,000-square-meter plot of land before the “provisional” installation becomes final.

But the survey has yet to take place, sources said.

Yonhap via a reader tip

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