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Seoul agrees to calls to change US missile site

by Our Foreign Desk

SOUTH Korea’s right-wing government bowed to months of protests on Friday and moved the planned site of a US anti-ballistic missile system.

Seoul’s Defence Ministry said it had chosen a golf course as the new site for the THAAD system but protests have erupted again from locals living near the latest site.

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