South Korean officials are expressing concerns that President Trump may
order a drawdown of troops from the Korean Peninsula, as negotiations on the funding of US troops deployed there hits an impasse.
In recent years, South Korea has paid about half of the cost of hosting
US troops in Korea. In 2018 this cost them $830 million. Yet President
Trump is seeking a massive increase in payments from South Korea,
demanding a 50% increase on top of what they already pay.
Negotiations on these demands began in March, with the goal of reaching a
new five-year deal before the previous deal expired. The deal has since
expired, at the end of 2018, and now there is no deal in place at all.
South Korea is said to be planning a counteroffer which will offer to
increase payments to adjust for inflation, though US officials say they
don’t think this will satisfy the White House. At the same time, South
Korean MPs say they don’t think they can afford to cave to “the Trumpian
way” of demanding increases.
Keep an airbase there and send all other soldiers home,,save the money for OUR infrastructure!
As if that’s our right? We shouldn’t have airbases anywhere except in our own country.
wars, I would not go as far as you are willing to go. We need some strategic bases, not nearly as many as today.
We only need to defend the US and we have the resources and two oceans to be impenetrable. Therefore we only need bases in the US. A strategic base outside our borders isn’t needed for self defense. MAD does still exist.
GTFO
Trump has no problems with our troops being deployed anywhere as long as we get paid handsomely. Same with NATO, he’s fine with it if everyone is paying their fair share. Increasing the already mammoth defense budget and creating a space force, hey, no problem. Otherwise he’s a non-interventionist.
Do the S. Korean people want our trash there anyways ? Do they like being occupied by the same country that killed millions of their people just 65 years ago ?
“South Korean officials are expressing concerns that President Trump may
order a drawdown of troops from the Korean Peninsula…”
I’m certain Moon Jae-in is smiling as he expresses his concern. He didn’t even have to give the USA an eviction notice!
Best thing for Jae-in to do is to counter with charging rent at Mar Lago rates for US bases.
Surely now is the time to tell the USA that now the two Koreas are on friendly terms the threatening bases and troops are no longer needed. Save the money, Mr president, for more walls.
They better pay up. Who else are they gonna get to pollute their beaches and rape their daughters? China? Fat chance.
Our troops should come home from South Korea because US intervention in other countries is wrong, not because the occupied country isn’t paying us enough.
But i would be glad to see them out nonetheless.
What is Trump and/or the State Dept. up to? Is it blackmail for peace in Korea? Or the intentional impediment to that goal?
Pretty nice country you have here, wouldn’t want anything to happen to it now would you. Trump is a mobster