Hundreds scuffle with police over US THAAD launcher deployment in South Korea

‘South Korean police have clashed with hundreds of demonstrators rallying against the deployment of more rocket launchers from a US missile system to their country.
The scuffles occurred on Wednesday evening as riot police tried to break out protesting crowds of about 400 residents in North Gyeongsang Province’s Seongju County — some 300 kilometers south of the capital, Seoul — where two of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system have already been installed.
According to the Seongju Fire Station, 38 demonstrators were wounded in the clashes, and 21 of them were sent to hospitals, but no life-threatening injuries were reported. The station said that a number of police personnel had been wounded in the scuffles, too.
Early on Monday, some 8,000 South Korean police had been deployed to the area to maintain order and to pave the way for the arrival of 10 US military vehicles carrying equipment for the four remaining THAAD launchers.’

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