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China/ Politics

China expels South Korean missionaries amid missile defence tension

South Korea says no direct connection to nation’s plan to deploy US anti-missile system

Members of the congregation clean an unofficial Catholic church in Hebei province in December. South Korea announced on Saturday that China expelled 32 of its missionaries in January. Photo: Reuters

China has expelled 32 South Korean Christian missionaries, a South Korean government official said on Saturday, amid diplomatic tension between the two countries over the planned deployment of a US missile defence system in the South.

The 32 were based in China’s northeastern Yanji region near the border with North Korea, many of whom had worked there for more than a decade, South Korean media reported.