Donald Trump said that when he was in office, he demanded that 'money machine' South Korea pay $5 billion to host U.S. troops.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Tuesday that if he were president, South Korea would pay $10 billion for the continued deployment of American troops there.'They have a money machine. We protect them from North Korea and from other people,' the former president said during his interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club in Chicago.The U.S.
The host government also covered indirect support such as waiving rent on land and facilities used by U.S. forces.Sean King, Asia scholar and senior vice president of the New York-based consultancy Park Strategies, suggests the benefits to Washington's Indo-Pacific strategy outweigh the financial burden.'The U.S. should be thanking Seoul for the opportunity to forward-deploy forces and equipment only a few hundred miles from rival mainland China,' he told Newsweek.
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