South Korea says U.S. troops to stay after peace deal
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U.S. troops will remain on the Korean peninsula even if the North and South reach a peace deal to replace the armistice that ended their 1950-1953 war, South Korea's foreign minister said on Friday.
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South Korea has delayed a decision on when to pull its 1,200 troops out of Iraq, the Defense Ministry said Thursday, raising the possibility that it could extend the unpopular mission for another year.
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The United States will cut one-third of its troops in South Korea in several phases by 2008, three years behind its original schedule, the South Korean Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday afternoon.
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South Korea agreed to resume high-level talks with North Korea that could restart major aid shipments despite calls for caution over an international deal on Pyongyang's nuclear programmes.
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North and South Korea agreed on Friday to  resume reunions of families separated during the Korean War in  a step toward improving ties chilled by Pyongyang's weapons  tests last year.
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The government made it official Thursday: the Self-Defense Forces troops in Iraq will stay for another year, as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi renewed his commitment to reconstruction efforts
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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 United States agreed under  pressure from South Korea on 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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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 U.S. military said on Tuesday it would hold military exercises with South Korea this month, but sought to reassure North Korea the drills were not meant to be provocative.
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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&#39;s nuclear programs before the end of the year, Yonhap news agency reported.
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President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said Wednesday.
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South Korea says it wants to see a peaceful solution to the controversy over North Korea's programme.
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Military officers from Seoul and Pyongyang met Thursday to discuss rail and road links through the Demilitarised Zone, ending a three-month break in two-way talks, but North Korea dodged making any clear pledge over key issues, the South Korean defense ministry said.
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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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A top South Korean official says the normalisation of relations between the United States and North Korea is key to resolving the North&#39;s nuclear standoff.
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The two Koreas agreed to resume stalled high-level talks later this month in Pyongyang, officials said Thursday, amid signs of easing tensions on the divided peninsula after the North signed a breakthrough disarmament agreement.