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BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The possible deployment of a U.S. anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea will only undermine the regional strategic balance and inflame tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday that Washington has been talking with Seoul "for several weeks" about deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea that would be oriented to the "threat" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and enhance South Korea's security.
First, the "threat" from the DPRK, which has conducted four nuclear tests so far, cannot be uprooted by deploying a missile system but would be escalated.
From a historic perspective, the essence of the Korean nuclear issue is the contradictions between the DPRK and the United States.
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