President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday called for a probe into four additional THAAD launchers being brought into the country, calling the development “shocking.”



Until now only the presence of two THAAD launchers, deployed at the site provided by the previous administration in Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, was known.







“The president was briefed on the fact that four THAAD launchers, in addition to the two deployed in Seongju, have been brought into the country,” Yoon Young-chan, chief presidential press secretary, said. Yoon said that Moon verified the information with Minister of National Defense Han Min-koo after he was informed by NSC chief Chung Eui-yong.



“President Moon ordered the senior civil affairs secretary and the chief of the National Security Council to investigate the matter. To determine why the information was withheld fromA PLAN for a new rail line to Monash University and Rowville, floated by the Baillieu government before it won office, looks set to be shelved indefinitely.

The Rowville Rail Study, provided to The Age yesterday by Victorian Transport Minister Terry Mulder, recommends building new tracks from Huntingdale station on the Dandenong line to Rowville.

A Rowville train line 'could not be provided for at least a decade', according to the study.

The new line would go underground from Huntingdale to Monash University's Clayton campus - which is currently served only by buses - and then on to Rowville via an overpass and another tunnel.

But the line would only be feasible, the report says, if new tracks were built on the Dandenong line and several level crossings removed. It would also