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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that relations between South Korea and China are strained after Lotte agreed to provide a site for an American THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea's Jeju Province.
Beijing has issued two "solemn representations" to Seoul over the impending deployment, and the People's Daily, a Communist party mouthpiece, said in an editorial that Beijing could potentially sever diplomatic ties.
On Tuesday, after months of negotiations, South Korean retail giant Lotte Group reached a deal to swap land at its Lotte Skyhill Country Club - a lush, mountainous resort in on the southern side of Jeju Island - for a military-owned parcel on the outskirts of Seoul, making way for the missile shield to be placed on the country club site.
That same day, Chinese authorities fined one of Lotte's Beijing supermarkets $US6500 for displaying a "false advertisement" - a vanishingly rare charge in the city, according to the state-run Legal Daily.
South Korean musicians, cosmetics, and television productions have also been subjected to adverse actions by the Chinese government, the article says.
A statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry after a meeting with the Assistant Foreign Minister of China said
Both parties emphasised that collective political and diplomatic efforts should be stepped up to ease tensions and initiate the process of military and political detente across the board in Northeast Asia, in order to create conditions conducive to resolving the nuclear issue, as well as other issues, on the Korean Peninsula.
Submitter's comment: I'm puzzled by the choice of a site to the south of the Korean peninsula.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday March 04 2017, @09:47PM
Quite incorrect.
Hitting the missile on the way up is much easier, because it's not going to take wild evasive maneuvers, is pretty soft, and needs to stay intact. The hard part is to catch up with it fast, requiring being close.
On the way down, a long-range ballistic missile is always hypersonic, and launches a dozen independent heads and decoys, each of which are designed to take unpredictable paths to avoid interception, while being spread hundreds of kilometers apart.
The second reason to want anti-ballistic defense close to China is the famous "carrier killers", ballistic medium-range toys which rightfully scare the beejezus out of the guys sailing a giant target near unfriendly waters. Carriers have their strike group to do the ABM job, but multi-layer protection gives better odds.