South Koreans: Chinese Regime the Biggest Threat to Peace on Korean Peninsula

46 percent of respondents regarded China as “the most threatening country to peace on the Korean peninsula,” increasing almost triple from last year’s 17 percent.

File photo of the THAAD anti-missile defense system. photo by Lockheed Martin

Almost half of the respondents to a recent survey conducted by South Korea’s Seoul National University said that China was the biggest to threat to peace between the two Koreas.

The survey, published Oct. 2 by the university’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS), shows 46 percent of respondents regard China as “the most threatening country to peace on the Korean Peninsula,”  almost tripling last year’s 17 percent.