By Pan Guoping

March 29, 2016

"Using the excuse of the North Korean nuclear crisis, the US is promoting the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system on the soil of South Korea. It has not only gone far beyond what the Peninsula actually needs for defense, but has also directly harmed strategic security interests of both China and Russia.

I believe that discussions under the framework of international law over how the Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea (henceforth the Mutual Defense Treaty) injures the UN's collective security system, and violates basic principles of the UN Charter, as well as disproving the treaty's legitimacy are urgent and necessary means to safeguard China's security interests"

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