A scandal embroiling South Korean President Park Geun-hye may have changed everything. The deployment date was moved forward as the scandal-hit president is forecast to be permanently removed from office on or before March 13. A presidential election must be held in 60 days if Park is ousted.

Cheong said the conservative bloc may clearly want to focus public attention on security issues such as THAAD during the election period as situations are now extremely disadvantageous to them in terms of support scores.

In South Korea's modern history, the conservative governments had sought to hype up security issues and tensions with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) during the election period as voters tend to grant election victories to them for fear of the manipulated tensions.

THAAD could have been seen by some as a U.S. gift to South Korea, but it could turn into a Trojan horse that will distort the presidential election and destroy relations with China, South Korea's largest trading partner.

Cheong said he can understand why the Chinese government and people were enraged by the THAAD installation in South Korea, but the civic group activist stressed that more South Koreans are increasingly turning bad toward the strong responses in China.

He expressed his worry about the scenario, under which only the bad feeling toward each other remains between South Korean and Chinese people without discussions on the uselessness and the aggressiveness of the U.S. missile defense system.

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