SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Residents living in and near a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) site in southeastern South Korea rallied in front of the U.S. embassy in central Seoul on Tuesday, calling for retraction of the agreement between Seoul and Washington to install the U.S. missile defense system.
About 500 residents from Seongju county and Gimcheon city gathered near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, carrying a placard that reads "Desperate opposition to THAAD deployment."
South Korea and the United States jointly announced their decision in July to deploy one THAAD battery at a missile emplacement in Seongju county in North Gyeongsang province by the end of next year.
Faced with the bitterest opposition from Seongju residents, President Park Geun-hye said in early August that she would reconsider the THAAD site to minimize damages from the THAAD's X-band radar which is known to emit super microwave detrimental to human body and environment.
On Sept. 30, Seoul's defense ministry said it would alter the U.S. missile shield site into a golf course in the Seongju county's far northern area that faces the Gimcheon city with a population of about 140,000.
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