The commentary noted that U.S. high-ranking officials have become all the more undisguised in talking about the deployment of THAAD in south Korea, but the south Korean authorities claimed that they neither officially negotiated nor discussed it.

The U.S. peddling of the issue of deploying THAAD is little short of building a regional missile shield together with Japan, the commentary noted.

It urged the authorities to oppose the deployment of THAAD.