NY Times reports that Trump orders reduction of US Forces Korea

[rangerrebew]

NY Times reports that Trump orders reduction of US Forces Korea
Posted on : May.5,2018 14:53 KST Modified on : May.5,2018 14:53 KST


Blue House and White House claim report is “not true at all”

On May 3, the New York Times reported that US President Donald Trump had ordered the Pentagon to prepare measures to reduce American troops in South Korea, citing multiple sources. Considering that South Korea and the US are currently negotiating the cost sharing agreement for those troops’ deployment and that a North Korea-US summit is approaching, this report, if true, is expected to have major ramifications. The Blue House immediately denied the report, saying that it was “not true at all.”

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/843416.html

[rangerrebew]

Anyone who has done any negotiating realizes you can't negotiate and hope to be successful if you are negotiating from a  point of weakness, not strength.  To reduce troop strength at this point would be disastrous.  If anyone ever understood this, it is Trump.  I think our komrades at the NY Slimes are making their own news again/still.