U.S. Stretches Out S. Korea Troop Cut Until 2008
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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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The United States will maintain its   enlarged force in Iraq at current levels until at least mid   -2007, the top U.S. general in the Middle East said on Tuesday,   as Washington scrambles to prevent all-out sectarian war.
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The United States and South Korea agreed Friday to give Seoul operational control over South Korean forces in wartime in 2012, officials said.
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South Korea will take control of its military from 2012 under a handover deal with the US, ending a 50-year pact.
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The Bush administration took pains Wednesday to portray as mutually advantageous the impending turnover to the South Koreans of wartime operational control of their country's armed forces.
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President Bush&#39;s plan to withdraw up to 70,000 troops from overseas bases contained few specifics, particularly about Asia. Some experts think the United States may leave much of its Asia force intact.
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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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Japan approved an extension of its troop  deployment in Iraq Thursday for up to a year, a decision  opposed by most voters, who want to end the nation's riskiest  military mission since World War II.
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SEOUL : The United States has agreed to a phased pullout of troops from South Korea over five years rather than the abrupt cutback of one third of its forces by the end of next year, a news report said.
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South Korea and the United States closed  a round of defense talks in Seoul on Friday aimed at scheduling  a reduction of U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula without  agreeing on the timeline of the realignment.
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In April 2003, as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was ending, the Pentagon projected in a formal planning effort that the U.S. military occupation of the country would end this month.
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SOUTH KOREA SEOUL -- The United States would dispatch 690,000 troops and 2,000 warplanes if war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, according to a South Korean defense policy paper released yesterday. The plan for committing US troops in the event of war appears aimed at easing concerns that Washington is using US troops in South Korea as a rapid ...
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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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TOKYO, Japan -- Japan plans to keep its troops in Iraq beyond the original withdrawal date of December 14 this year, according to Japanese media reports Tuesday.
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The United States and South Korea plan to announce on Wednesday a three-year delay in plans to cut the number of U.S. troops stationed on the Cold War frontline to protect the U.S. ally against reclusive communist North Korea.
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It&#039;s a coalition of the dwindling. The U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq is losing two of its most important allies &amp;#151; Italy and South Korea &amp;#151; and up to half a dozen other members could draw down their forces or pull out entirely by the end of the year.
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South Korea will not be able to complete a major relocation of US military bases by 2008 as scheduled due to protests by residents and a dispute over cost-sharing, the defence ministry says.