SEOUL: China has blamed South Korea for damaging “mutual trust” with its planned deployment of an advanced US missile defense system in the face of Beijing’s opposition, Yonhap news agency said Monday.

Seoul and Washington announced earlier this month their decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in the South following recent North Korean missile and nuclear tests.

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