SEOUL – The former leader of South Korea’s main opposition party said on Thursday he would run for president, while adding that the issue of deploying a US anti-missile system should be pushed back to the next presidential administration.
“It would be a great honour for me to run for president,” Moon Jae-in, the former leader of the Democratic Party of Korea told a news conference, when asked to clarify whether he would run or not.
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South Korea’s next presidential election is due in 2018, but one could be held sooner if a Constitutional Court upholds a parliamentary vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye.
On the contentious missile system, Moon said: “It is inappropriate for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence deployment process to go on under the current political circumstances.”
