Pentagon No. 2 Flags Worries About Staying Ready For N. Korea -- Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Defense Department’s deputy secretary on Tuesday renewed the Pentagon’s commitment to keep forces ready for possible hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, but said deep budget cuts to military training accounts could harm long-term preparedness.
“We’re working as hard as we can to make sure that our commitments to things like the Peninsula [are] protected to the maximum degree possible,” Ashton Carter said in remarks at the National Press Club. “We are doing that and we will keep doing that.
“But it comes under increasing stress as time goes on,” he added, alluding to $37 billion in across-the-board reductions for the remainder of the current fiscal year, mandated by the 2011 Budget Control Act. “We’ll have to see what happens as the years go by.”
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My Comment: This is where South Korea will need to step up .... they cannot be reliant on U.S. military power forever.
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