Former Ambassador Says South Korea is Not Free Riding on Defense
I don’t think the argument is whether South Korea is free riding but rather if their current cost sharing amount is adequate:
Former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert on Friday rejected the notion that South Korea is free-riding on the United States’ troop presence in the country, saying the two nations are “very, very strong allies.”
Lippert, who served as the last U.S. ambassador to Seoul under former President Barack Obama, made the remark as negotiations on renewing a burden-sharing deal between South Korea and the U.S. got under way this week. (…………….)
n supporting his case, the former ambassador listed three factors: mandatory military service for all able-bodied South Korean men, South Korea’s shouldering of more than 90 percent of the cost of expanding Camp Humphreys, the U.S.’ largest overseas military base, and Seoul’s increase of defense spending by 4-8 percent each year.
Yonhap
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Lippert is an anti-Trump apprentice schmendrick.
No one EVER wants an ambassador’s opinions. They’re hired and fired based on their ability to transmit the President’s opinions.
That schmedrick is receiver of bronze star medal as an intelligence officer in 2007 to 2008, deployed in Iraq… Unlike you in ROK, he was in a war zone.
Spome of us were in Korea, went to a war zone..and in then came back. Guess you didn’t think of that possibility.
I sat nuclear alerts in a B-52 while you were still in diapers, fake croat. And if you were in Iraq, you were probably mujahadin and stole the bronze star from an actual hero.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
“Free-riding” ?
When someone uses snowflake-babble, you already know where their allegiance lies.