SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — South Korea and the United
States are expected to launch a joint working group next week to
discuss the deployment in the South Korean territory of a sophisticated
U. S. missile defense system, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday
citing a government source.
The source was quoted as saying that the joint working group would be
launched next week due to shortage of time to finish the forming of it
within this week.
Preliminary talks between Seoul and Washington have already started
to deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South
Korea. The talks are reportedly discussing various preparations to
launch the working group, including who will represent each side.
The joint working group was originally scheduled to be launch on
Tuesday, but it was delayed at the request of the U.S. side, according
to the report.
Seoul and Washington jointly announced the start of missile defense
talks on Feb. 7 when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
launched a long-range rocket, which the allies see as a prohibited test
of ballistic missile technology.
The rocket launch came amid ongoing discussions at the UN Security
Council about tougher new sanctions against what Pyongyang claimed was
its first H-bomb test on Jan. 6, the fourth of its nuclear detonations.
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