U.S. Reportedly Asking South Korea to Pay for Deployment of Strategic Assets
It will be interesting to see how this is handled:
The United States recently pressed South Korea to pay at least $100 million, or 117 billion won, for the temporary dispatch of U.S. strategic assets around the Korean Peninsula, the JoongAng Ilbo exclusively reported Wednesday.
Citing multiple sources with knowledge of the talks, the paper said U.S. officials raised the issue late last month and again last week when both countries met for their first and second rounds of discussions on renewing the bilateral Special Measures Agreement (SMA), a cost-sharing deal that defines how much each country pays for the stationing of 28,500 U.S. troops in South Korea.
Both countries launched discussions late last month to renew the deal, which is set to expire at the end of this year. The first round of talks was held on Sept. 24 and 25, and the second round was held on Oct. 23 and 24.
In both meetings, multiple sources who spoke with the JoongAng Ilbo said the United States asked South Korea to pay for the deployment of their strategic assets flying near the Korean Peninsula, saying their flights were defending the South.
Joong Ang Ilbo
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Ah yes… the best way to stop being America, World Police is to start asking to get paid…
…well… until they try to create their own security and find it is difficult, expensive, and half-arsed…
…then, they will realize America provides a pretty good service at a pretty reasonable price… due to experience and economy of scale…
…and institutional corruption funded by deficit spending.
It is now time to use globalism as a weapon instead of a ball gag and anál hook.
Hyundai and Samsung will make sure the Korean government uses taxpayer funds to buy American protection to insure the stability that keeps stock prices high and foreign investment coming.
CH, you certainly have a way of looking at things…
Pretty much every part of normal life is comparable to a ball gag, anal hook, and the cup from the two girls.
CH, you should always tell your readers not to google “Two Girls and a Cup” so that when the younger ones do, you can claimbyou were trying to keep them from that particular episode of “Friends”.