U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper pressed South Korea on Friday to pay more f...
SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper pressed South Korea on Friday to pay more for the cost of stationing U.S. troops in the country and to maintain an intelligence-sharing pact with its other Asian ally Japan that Seoul is about to let lapse.
But he stopped short of announcing any changes to exercises next month that North Korea has sharply condemned. South Korea, Esper said, “is a wealthy country and could and should pay more” for the deployment of U.S. military in the South. A South Korean lawmaker said last week that U.S. officials demanded up to $5 billion a year, more than five times what Seoul agreed to pay this year under a one-year deal.
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