'Dangerous' for South Korea to enter defence alliance with Japan and US, presidential hopeful says | South China Morning Post

South Korea's ruling party candidate for next year's presidential election on Wednesday said he was not in favour of Japan joining the US and South Korea in a three-way military alliance, questioning whether Tokyo was a "trustworthy friend". Lee Jae-myung, of the Democratic Party, also said he was opposed to any additional deployment of the highly-sophisticated US missile defence system known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD), seen by China as a direct security threat. "Needless to say, I am opposed to a three-way military alliance including Japan," Lee told journalists. Seoul to develop own ship-based gun to…