The United States officially informed the Korean government that the U.S. will pull 12,500 soldiers out of Korea by late December 2005, including the 3,600 soldiers scheduled to be sent to Iraq, according to Kim Sook, head of the foreign ministry’s North American affairs bureau.....To reduce its troops in Korea at the earliest, the U.S. delivered its wishes to complete the general outline of a reduction agreement before the U.S. presidential election in November. Meanwhile, Korea delivered its position that it needs time to prepare countermeasures such as supplementing military forces to reduce anxieties concerning security. In particular, the Korean government proposed to stipulate preliminary consultations in the case of a transfer from or reduction in USFK. The U.S. government, however, expressed disapproval.
You’re big boys now defend yourselves. We’ll keep the Chinese out and you deal with your cousins to the North. This is what you said you wanted, so now have the good grace to accept it. |