WASHINGTON — US-South Korean talks on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea are on track and ahead of schedule, but the US side does not necessarily see a hard deadline ahead of the November US election, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters. The two sides named envoys this month to launch a new early round...
South Korean army K1A2 tanks take part in a joint combat firing drill between South Korean and US troops near the demilitarised zone separating two Koreas, in Pocheon, South Korea, Jan 2, 2024.WASHINGTON — US-South Korean talks on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea are on track and ahead of schedule, but the US side does not necessarily see a hard deadline ahead of the November US election, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters.
Trump demanded Seoul pay as much as US$5 billion a year for the deployment of some 28,500 American troops as part of efforts to deter nuclear-armed North Korea."I can't say at this moment quite how soon they'll wrap, but we are not seeing major hurdles. And we're seeing a lot of political will on both sides," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
South Korea began shouldering the costs of US deployments, used to fund local labour, the construction of military installations and other logistics support, in the early 1990s.
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