South Korea May End Up Paying THAAD Costs After All
The way I look at it, as long as the ROK government continues to allow the protesters to block the road and artificially make sustainment costs for THAAD more expensive they should pay for it:
South Korea’s defense ministry said Friday that the cost of operating a U.S. missile defense system installed in the South may be covered using part of Seoul’s new share of upkeep costs for U.S. forces stationed here.
The U.S. could demand South Korea shoulder some costs needed to run and keep the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system as the allies are in discussion to renew their five-year deal on defense cost-sharing.
“If the U.S. side hopes to use Seoul’s share of the U.S. forces upkeep costs to cover THAAD’s operation, it may be possible to use it within the total amount of the South’s share in accordance with sectoral needs and regulations,” the ministry said in a statement.
It could potentially spark a row as it marks a sharp difference from the government’s stance that South Korea will not bear any of the costs associated with THAAD. [Yonhap]
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They should pay it all the American tax payer has been paying for many years for there defense and American soldiers have payed with there life’s . Stand up Korea and pay what you owe.
If South Korea is waking up and becoming more willing to stand up for their debts, it’s a wonderful thing.
Either they pay, and clear the road or we should leave. Period.
THAAD is Moon’s Obamacare. Inherited from previous administration, don’t want it, but can’t get rid of it either.
About time these Commies opened the chequebook!
A major part of the SMA is construction costs. The US should no longer need near as much as in the past. Move it to other uses.