US says SKorea paying too little for its troops
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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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New York - North Korea sought &quot;several billion dollars&quot; in cash from the US during bilateral missile talks during former President Bill Clinton&amp;apos;s administration in exchange for halting its missile exports, the Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday
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The United States does not believe that a large explosion in North Korea was related to the communist country's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Bush's foreign policy advisers said Sunday.
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Plenty of cash for big tanks though The US Army's planned budget for the 2008 financial year is in excess of $130bn â more than double the budget of all three UK armed services combined â but even so the American soldiers believe they are short of what they need.â¦
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speaks with his US counterpart Paul E. Snyder (L) during a press conference at the border village of Panmunjom, north of Seoul, November 1. US troops withdrew November 1 from the world&#39;s last Cold War
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It must be said that the admission comes at quite a dramatic time. The US commitment to South Korean defense is suspected to be weakening as Washington plans to pull out a third of its 37,000 troops here as part of its global arms redeployment.
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The former US civilian administrator in Iraq says the United States &quot;paid a big price&quot; for not having enough troops on the ground after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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The nation's defense relies on a small group that operates on a tiny budget and with little clout, experts say.
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[World News] Seoul, Oct 6 : The United States will cut one-third of its troops in South Korea in phases by 2008, three years behind schedule, the South Korean defence ministry said Wednesday.
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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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The United States and South Korea agreed Friday that by 2012 the South Koreans will be responsible for commanding their military in wartime.
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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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North Korea has not met its  commitment to fully account for its nuclear activities by the  end of 2007 under a disarmament agreement, the United States  said on Sunday, urging Pyongyang to comply with its  obligations.
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The United States has still only  spent a small portion of the $18.4 billion it set aside for  rebuilding Iraq, a new government report shows.
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The United States urged North Korea Tuesday to stop boasting about its nuclear weapons capability and return to the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula.
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With the Iraq war and clashes in Afghanistan grinding on, the cost to the US budget is $500 billion and still mounting.
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Soldiers in South Korea can no longer use U.S.-based VoIP services, but must use more-expensive local Internet telephony providers.