Sales at Kim Chang-bae’s hardware shop in South Korea rise every year thanks to Camp Humphreys, an enormous US military base he is frightened will close in the wake of the summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. (AFP photo)
Straits Times/AFP: S.Koreans fearful of 'nightmare' US troop withdrawal
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea: Sales at Kim Chang-bae’s hardware shop in South Korea rise every year thanks to Camp Humphreys, an enormous US military base he is frightened will close in the wake of the summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.
More than 28,000 US troops are stationed in the South to guard against nuclear-armed North Korea, part of a Seoul-Washington security alliance in place since the Korean war ended with an armistice instead of a peace treaty.
But with talks between the North Korean and US leaders in Hanoi just days away, speculation is building that the pair could agree to a treaty in return for denuclearisation measures from Pyongyang – and that the withdrawal of US troops might follow.
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WNU Editor: U.S. troops will eventually leave South Korea one day. But I do not see it happening anytime in the near future.
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Those 28,000 troops are as vulnerable as the US Army was in the Philippines circa December 1941. They need to be withdrawn for the security of the US Pacific forces.
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