S.Korea's Roh Says U.S. Troop Cut Is a Challenge
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KYERYONG, South Korea  - South Korean President  Roh Moo-hyun called on Friday for an upgrade to the country's  defense capabilities to better equip its 690,000 strong  military to deter the communist North.
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When South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun  meets President Bush later this week in Washington, the two  will try to resolve differences in managing North Korea, which  has strained ties between the allies.
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US national security advisory Condoleezza Rice said that US military power on the Korean peninsula will be stronger even if 12,000 troops are withdrawn under a controversial troop withdrawal plan.
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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 Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun said Tuesday his government could scrap free trade talks with Washington if Seoul&#39;s economic interests are not properly reflected in a final deal.
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The United States has hinted at delaying its planned troop reductions in South Korea following concern by the Seoul government, a news report said.
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President Roh Moo-hyun on Wednesday noted concern in South Korea and the United States about the countries' five-decade alliance but gave assurances that South Korea would continue to support the U.S.-led fight against terrorism.
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Roh's move to do away with the security law has become the latest symbol of an ideological battle now raging in South Korea over whether detente with the North is happening too fast, too soon.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Monday his government will seek to increase investment and make selective tax cuts in an effort to maintain a 5 percent annual economic growth rate.
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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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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 top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, faced a tough challenge on Tuesday from both Republicans skeptical about war strategy and Democrats who want a swifter withdrawal of American troops
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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's Defense Agency, voicing &quot;grave concern&quot; about North Korea's recent missile tests, has called for the quick implementation of a controversial plan to realign US military bases.
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President Roh Moo-hyun lamented during an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that a Seoul offer to help resolve the lingering banking impasse that has bedeviled North Korea's nuclear disarmament has gone unheeded by Washington and Pyongyang.
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North Korea has set tough terms for a freeze of one of its nuclear facilities, demanding that the United States exceed commitments made under a Clinton-era deal that the Bush administration previously derided as inadequate.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun suffered a major political setback yesterday when the Constitutional Court ruled his controversial US$45 billion plan to move the capital was unlawful.