ROK Officials Concerned that “Strategic Flexibility” Could Lead to USFK Units Being Deployed Off the Peninsula
South Korea has much better equipped and modern military than North Korea. I feel confident they can deter North Korea if some US troops were deployed off the peninsula:
Concerns are mounting in South Korea over a potential shift in the role of the 28,500 US troops stationed here amid evolving nuclear and missile threats from North Korea.
Such worries have existed for decades, but have been exacerbated following US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January, experts noted. The possibility of the second Trump administration diverting some of the USFK resources to help defend Taiwan against threats from China has fed worries that it would leave the South more vulnerable to the North’s provocations, they added.
“There are growing concerns over the potential scenario that Washington would leverage part of the US Forces stationed on the Korean Peninsula for broader regional security roles rather than limiting their role to deterring the North,” Yu Ji-hoon, director of external cooperation at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, said via phone.
The allies have repeatedly stressed that the primary role of United States Forces Korea is to contribute to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
You can read more at the link, but the concept of strategic flexibility for USFK is not a new concept and dates back to the early 2000’s. Additionally an entire heavy brigade was deployed from Korea to Iraq back in 2004 showing that units have deployed off the peninsula before.
“diverting some of the USFK resources to help defend Taiwan against threats from China”
America is not going to defend Taiwan.
America is going to give Taiwan to China.
Right now, Taiwan is vital to American interests. But once Taiwan’s ability to make advanced semiconductors is duplicated in America, Taiwan becomes competition.
Then America destroys Taiwan’s tech and lets the Chinese have it. America will supply the resistance. Have fun, China.
If all goes according to plan, this will be in 2028 when the TSMC N3 plant is operational.
(The N4 plant came online months ago).
Nothing ever goes according to plan.
But the basic concept exists.
I agree.
And America is not going to defend South Korea. They’ll try to give it to North Korea since Trump is much closer to Kim Jong-un than to South Korea. That, or the US will demand cash payment if there comes time when NK or China attacks South Korea. Give us $80 billion now or else we won’t fight. You have no cards, you have no cards left.
Just get them out of South Korea, the US is no longer trusted. They’ve given all of South Korea’s military secrets to Russia, which passed them onto their allies, North Korea.