Russia warns US and South Korea; China calls in envoys

‘China has summoned US and South Korean envoys in a show of protest against their agreement on the deployment of a missile system on the Korean Peninsula, while Russia warns the two sides of “irreparable consequences.”
On Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a news briefing in Beijing that American and South Korean ambassadors were summoned to hear a protest against such a controversial deployment.
This came after Washington and Seoul reached a formal agreement to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to counter alleged threats by Pyongyang.’
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