USFK, US Forces Korea.
Trump turns USFK into 'transactional' army
Posted : 2019-08-16 14:11 Updated : 2019-08-16 14:29
U.S. troops in Korea engage in an exercise. They have served as a key deterrent to North Korean invasions but their commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, has attacked its relevancy. Yonhap
By Oh Young-jin
U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) is under attack not by enemy but by its own commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump.
Trump is prioritizing the size of the bill host Korea pays toward upkeep and is indulging himself in an unwarranted bromance with the head of the enemy.
The risk is bringing confusion to the mission and raison d'etre of the peacekeepers and freedom fighters who have stood ready for decades to throw down their lives to help protect Koreans from North Korean invasions and assert a U.S.-led balance of power in the region where interests of big powers often clash. So a blow to the USFK credibility is feared.
Already, Trump's first defense secretary, James Mattis, the soldier of the soldiers, called it quits over Trump's acts of belittling the allies, calling them freeloaders being piggybacked by the U.S., and his boss's readiness to sleep with enemies like the North's young dictator Kim Jong-un and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Read more at: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/08/205_274035.html?utm_source=push&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=US
Very critical article, more like an editorial but so have it.
