SOUTH KOREA. So Seong Ri village, Seongju. May 15, 2017.
Visitors to a tent village occupied by protestors opposed to the US Army's deployment the THAAD missile defense system near the village of Seongju.
About 2,000 residents of Seongju and a neighboring county, 275km south-east of Seoul, rallied with banners reading: "No Thaad but peace". Some 2,000 riot police were mobilised to maintain order at the march and stop protesters reaching the installation site.
Washington and Seoul say the system is for purely defensive purposes, but China fears it could undermine its own nuclear deterrent and has reacted with fury, imposing a series of measures seen as economic retaliation on the South.