US putting off troop pullout in S. Korea by 3 years
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SEOUL - The United States has agreed to delay its troop withdrawal from South Korea and will leave missiles and attack helicopters in place to deter any attack from the North, the allies said yesterday.
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The cost of a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq similar to the peacekeeping role American troops have played in South Korea would range from $10 billion to $25 billion a year, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.
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US military authorities have complained they are being paid too little by South Korea for the stationing of American troops on the peninsula next year, expressing concern about joint defense.
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South Korean parliament extended the country's controversial troop deployment in Iraq for another year, Yonhap news agency reported.
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The United States and South Korea on Friday said they would dissolve by 2012 an arrangement dating from the Korean War under which Seoul's military forces were put under the control of U.S.-led U.N. forces.
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The United States will withdraw up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia over the next decade in a move to meet the new threats facing the world, President George W. Bush said.
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WASHINGTON/SEOUL  - The United States agreed under  pressure from South Korea Wednesday to stretch out over an  additional three years until 2008 the withdrawal of 12,500 U.S.  troops from that country.
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South Korea and the United States will hold a joint military exercise next month to prepare for Seoul's plans to retake wartime command of its forces, the U.S. military said Friday.
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Violent protests staged against the U.S. military presence in South Korea are likely to delay a major realignment of U.S. bases in the country, including the closure of a base in Seoul, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.
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Deployment of 3,200 marines will help, analysts say, but will not provide the kind of counterinsurgency now needed there.
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The United States and South Korea failed to hammer out a deal over a timetable for the planned reduction of US troops here, with Seoul asking for the cut to be delayed, officials said.
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SEOUL The much-delayed deployment of South Korea&#39;s brigade to Iraq has gone ahead, the Defense Ministry announced Wednesday in a move that is expected to improve ties with the United States.
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The United States is unlikely to   begin cutting its troops in Iraq until at least mid-2007 as   they try to stop sectarian violence from degenerating into   civil war, a senior general said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces will need another year to 18 months before they can take over from American troops, the top US commander in Iraq, General George W. Casey Jr., said yesterday.
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South Korea and the United States have agreed that US troop strength in the Asian country will be reduced at a much slower pace than originally announced.
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The United States will not live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill said on Wednesday.
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A US commander in Iraq warns against early troop withdrawals, despite growing calls for a pullout.