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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...
