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Seoul agrees to pay more for hosting American troops in 2021
Overall, South Korea will be paying about 44 percent of the overall cost of having American troops based on the peninsula.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
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Agreement reached on new cost-sharing deal for US troop presence in South Korea
The State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said the deal includes a “negotiated increase” in Seoul’s share of the cost, but it provided no details.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Moon, Biden agree to boost US-South Korean alliance
South Korea’s leader said Thursday he and President Joe Biden have agreed to further bolster their countries’ alliance and work together to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Compromise defense bill confronts a rising China
Eyeing China’s rise as a global military and economic power, lawmakers unveiled a compromise defense policy bill Thursday that targets China on multiple fronts, with $6.9 billion prescribed for a new Pacific Deterrence Initiative over two years.
By Joe Gould