US-ROK Cost Sharing Talks to Restart Next Week
I still believe that a final US-ROK cost sharing deal will be reached as part of the ongoing negotiations with North Korea. If Washington drops sanctions like Seoul wants than I think they will give the Trump administration the deal they want on cost sharing. I guess we will see what happens:
South Korea and the United States will resume negotiations over military cost-sharing issues in Seoul next week.
Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday the tenth round of negotiations concerning the bilateral Special Measures Agreement(SMA) will be held for three days from Tuesday, where the two sides will have in-depth discussions to coordinate stances based on the previous talks.
According to the ministry, the foreign ministers of the two countries agreed during their meeting in Washington on Thursday that they will continue to encourage the negotiators to produce mutually satisfying results. [KBS World Radio]
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Korea need to pay 100%
Let’s say another country successfully deployed a tornado defense system across the southern plains of the US. We invited them into our country because we’ve witnessed the system work. It saved countless lives and the unpredictability of tornadoes was just something this other country was good at.
Who should pay for their continued presence?