Investigate the THAAD missile expansion that is not disclosed by Moon directions

Seoul, June 5: On Monday, South Korean President Moon Jai ordered the US missile shield to investigate an extensive investigation of four mobile launchers. Moon ordered an investigation into the "intentional" omission of report to him about the deployment of four THAAD mobile launchers at an unidentified US military base in South Korea, Xinhua news agency reported.

The President was later briefed on the investigation findings that showed Wi Seung-ho, Chief of the Defence Ministry's National Defence Policy Office, ordered officials to omit the deployment of four more THAAD launchers from a document to the presidential Blue House. Wi will be excluded from relevant defence affairs, while other relevant Defence Ministry officials will be subjected to further investigations, according to the Blue House.

President Moon also ordered a separate probe into the Defence Ministry, that is suspected of avoiding the environmental assessment of THAAD at a golf course in Seongju county, North Gyeongsang province. Seoul and Washington decided in July last year to deploy one THAAD battery in southeast South Korea. The site was altered in last September into the golf course at a small village. Two weeks before the presidential election on May 9, two mobile launchers, radar and other heavy equipment were transported to the golf course in the middle of the night. The speculative intentions of politically motivated security issues during the delicate election campaign sparked.