SEOUL (REUTERS) - The former leader of South Korea's main opposition party said on Thursday (Dec 15) 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," Mr 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.
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 Thaad, Mr Moon said: "It is inappropriate for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence deployment process to go on under the current political circumstances."