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The US has reportedly started moving parts of the US-made missile-defence system, along with other military hardware, out of South Korea for deployment in its war against Iran – a move officials are downplaying, but which has raised questions over Donald Trump’s commitment to North-east Asia.
As the Guardian’s Justin McCurry writes:
The move, reported this week, has triggered doubts over Donald Trump’s security commitment to South Korea – the US’s most important east Asian ally along with Japan – and warnings that the nuclear-armed North could seek to ramp up pressure on its neighbour. Why, critics are asking, did South Korea invest so much political capital in a defense system that could one day be removed?
