SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) - Cracks may be emerging in the so-called ironclad military alliance between South Korea and the United States, stoking worries in Seoul that the Trump administration is looking at withdrawing troops from the peninsula.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - Cracks may be emerging in the so-called ironclad military alliance between South Korea and the United States, stoking worries in Seoul that the Trump administration is looking at withdrawing troops from the peninsula.
While Mr Trump has complained about open-ended US military commitments since before taking office, the threat of a withdrawal has increased since his decision last month to reduce the country's military footprint in Germany. "Of course, Washington's SMA demands are overwhelming, but this shouldn't hurt the alliance itself. There is no such thing called a 'second chance' in security."
"I've issued no orders to withdraw forces from the Korean Peninsula," Mr Esper said in an internet discussion, but he would not say if that meant a future cut in South Korea. Mr Trump has suspended joint military drills with South Korea to help nuclear negotiations with leader Kim Jong Un and said after his first meeting with Kim in 2018 that he would"like to bring them back home, but that's not part of the equation right now".
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