US, South Korea reach agreement on troops reduction
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The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the United States and South Korea has reached final agreement on reducing US troops in South Korea, with the first phase to start this year involving 5,000 soldiers.
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Unless the South Korean government agrees to pay more of the cost of hosting American military forces, the Pentagon may feel compelled to trim its presence there, a senior official said Monday.
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The United States and South Korea agreed  on Wednesday to keep pushing North Korea to join some form of  talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs before the end of the  year, Yonhap news agency reported.
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The United States was set on Thursday   to hand over formal command of Iraqi troops to Prime Minister   Nuri al-Maliki's government, a significant step toward the   withdrawal of some 150,000 U.S.-led foreign troops.
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The United States and South Korea discussed a possible peace treaty for the Korean peninsula when a State Department official visited here last week, Seoul officials said.
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South Korea on Saturday welcomed an agreement struck with Washington to hand Seoul wartime operational control over its own forces for the first time in more than 50 years.
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South Korea is likely to extend its troop deployment in Iraq through the end of next year, but cut the number of its soldiers in the country to 600 from 1,200, a major daily reported on Monday.
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Japan and the United States on Friday signed an agreement slightly trimming Japan's financial burden for hosting US military bases as Tokyo tries to contain a growing national debt.
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South and North Korea reached a deal on Friday to resume reunions of families separated during the Korean war in a step at improving ties that were chilled by Pyongyang's weapons tests last year.
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South Korea completed the deployment of  2,800 troops to Iraq on Wednesday, the defense ministry said as  it lifted a news blackout on the sensitive mission imposed in  the face of anti-war demonstrations.
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The U.S. Defense Department on  Wednesday notified Congress it plans to provide technical and  logistics support for South Korea's reconnaissance and  intelligence operations as it faces a standoff with North Korea  about its nuclear weapons program.
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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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Japan and the United States have signed an agreement to encourage cooperation on developing a missile defense system. Japanese Defense Minister Yoshinori Ono signed a memorandum of understanding
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TOKYO Oct 23, 2004 - US and Japanese negotiators tentatively agreed Saturday to ease a 10-month-old ban on American beef exports to Japan, the leader of the US delegation said.
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Japan and the United States signed an  agreement on Friday cementing cooperation on the development of  a ballistic missile defense system.
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South Korea and the United States agreed to push for an early resumption of negotiations to end the North Korean nuclear crisis as soon as the US presidential election comes to a close, top diplomats of the two nations said Tuesday.
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The United States plans to withdraw  about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia in a major realignment  of American military presence prompted by the end of the Cold  War and the beginning of the war on terrorism, U.S. officials  said on Saturday.