SO WHERE DOES THE MOON OF S KOREA RISES FROM - WILL IT BE THE EAST OR WILL IT BE THE WEST - AS POSK MOON THOWS A CURVE BALL TO THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE 4 AGREED THAAD DUE TO HIS ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN STUDIES - THE PROVERBIAL DELAY TACTICAL ARM USED BY LEFTISTS WORLDWIDE

If one says, "Excuse me," the other wouldn't say, "Thank you," or "You're welcome."

This rhetorical anomaly may best capture the narrative Korea and the United States are having on the allegedly "smuggled" four launchers for the latter's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile interceptor battery.

By all means the two allies do know the proper way of initiating and responding ― "sorry" or "certainly" to "excuse me," and "you ‘re welcome" to "thank you." So the chance is that it is part of their game to go one up on the other.

Chung Eui-yong

First, Chung Eui-yong, President Moon Jae-in's top national security aide, went to Washington and met his U.S. counterpart, H.R. McMaster, to consult on the Moon-Trump summit in Washington this month. Upon his return, Chung said that McMaster thanked him for explaining the delay in the THAAD deployment due to an environmental impact survey Moon has now insisted on conditioning it on. Chung also said that Washington expressed its understanding on what Seoul claimed was an "intentional omission" of four THAAD launchers being brought into the nation during the Ministry of National Defense's report to Cheong Wa Dae. Two launchers are already deployed at its Seongju, North Gyeongsang, site, but the four in question are now in storage.

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