Seoul, South Korea, May 15, 2017 / 19:02 pm
South Korean Catholics are opposing both the country's reliance on nuclear power and the U.S. missile defense system recently established to pressure the North out of future weapon tests.
A major leader of the anti-nuclear movement, Father Moon Paul Kyu-Hyn, said "getting rid of nuclear power is the only way to survive, to save ourselves, and save the world," according to Public Radio International.
A missile defense system has caused tensions between the U.S. and China as well as between China and South Korea. The country's new president, Moon Jae-in, has emphasized his goal to solve the issues in the Korean Peninsula.
Father Moon expressed his disappointed in the new Terminal High Altitude Area Defense or THAAD, which became operational on May 2 in the Korean Peninsula. An agreement to install the system was established between the United States and South Korea's former president, recently incarcerated for political corruption.