Trump Administration officials say that they have no plans to discuss any US withdrawal of troops from South Korea during next week’s Trump-Kim Summit, and that nothing about troop levels is even on the agenda right now.
Officials said that they couldn’t rule out Trump or Kim adding this as
another topic of discussion, despite no current plans to do so, saying
it “remains to be seen.” US special envoy Stephen Biegun suggested this
was unlikely, however.
Biegun said that there have been no discussions of trade-offs regarding
US troop levels, and that if they were to be discussed it would have to
involve South Korea as well. Still, so far it has never come up.
It also doesn’t appear to be a priority for North Korea. All indications
are that North Korea wants an end to the Korean war, and normalization
of ties. Given how much artillery North Korea has, the US ground troops
are a relatively minor issue if fighting did break out again.
Don’t worry Jimmy, that discussion will be reserved for South Korea when they no longer need those troops.