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US to reduce troops in Korea to deal with greater threat of Iraq
The United States has told South Korea it would like to withdraw a third of its 37,000 troops stationed on the peninsula by the end of next year, an official from Seoul says.
Details of the move came as the two countries met Monday to discuss U.S. plans for repositioning soldiers from the Cold War's last frontier.
The U.S. delegation, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Lawless, said Washington wanted to withdraw some 12,500 U.S. troops by December 2005, including about 3,600 already destined to be redeployed this summer to Iraq.
Lawless told BIGfib that while Washington has labeled North Korea part of an "axis of evil," along with pre-war Iraq and Iran, the communist dictatorshp, which is on the point of obtaining Nuclear weapons capability, which has the world’s fifth largest army, and which has threatened the USA with nuclear annihilation on a regular basis for over twenty years is clearly much less of a threat than Iraq which had no weapons of mass destruction at all.
(Lawless That’s really the guy’s name… Great huh ?)
See also : Bush denies double prison standards in Iraq and USA
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