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The reason Koreans object to THAAD is simple. It will lead to all-out war between South and North Korea. The THAAD is not to protect Korean people living in Seoul. It is to protect US armed force and its base in Korea from (nuclear or non-nuclear) missile attack from NK. US, especially under POTUS Trump leadership, is seriously considering first-strike attack on North Korea to neutralize nuclear capability of NK and its delivery means to US mainland (ICBM missile and SLBM submarine). Now first-strike attack on NK is REAL, serious, concrete strategy option, not empty threat on NK as it was under Obama admin.

For retaliation of such attack, NK will launch multiple long-range missiles (like Daepo-dong) to USAF military base in Korea and Japan. NK openly threatens such attack in case that US attacks on them. This and threat of massive long-range artillery and multiple rockets (MLRS) attack on Seoul are two prime deterrence factor that prevent SK or US from attacking on NK.

If US deploys the THAAD missile in Korea, the USAF bases in Korea, Japan and Guam Is. are protected from such missile retaliation from NK. So US is free to attack first on NK without worrying about safety of USAF base from retaliation of NK. But, on such attack, NK will readily do retaliation attack on SK Seoul, too. It will result in casualty of 100,000's of Korean civilian death or so. SK also will start to attack on NK across DMZ, the SK-NK border to silence such NK attack. The DMZ is the most heavily armed region of the world.

This mean full-scale, all-out war between SK and NK, more massive war than Korean War of 1950. Unimaginably massive casualty, destruction and economic loss will result. New war on Korean Peninsular is the thing that both South and North Koreans are hoping to avoid at ANY cost. So they object to THAAD deployment because it is precursor or direct preparation of US fist-strike attack on NK and massive war in Korean Peninsula thereafter.