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U.S. Defense Strategy Signals Shift in Korea Alliance as Focus Turns to China

U.S. Defense Strategy Signals Shift in Korea Alliance as Focus Turns to China

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A newly released U.S. defense strategy is signaling a subtle but consequential shift in Washington’s approach to the Korean Peninsula, raising the prospect of changes to the American military footprint in South Korea and placing new expectations on Seoul to assume greater responsibility for its own defense as the [...]

U.S. May Push for Greater Flexibility of Troops in Korea to Counter China

U.S. May Push for Greater Flexibility of Troops in Korea to Counter China

SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An envisioned U.S. national defense strategy may lead South Korea and the United States to explore “greater flexibility” of the 28,500-strong U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to help keep an assertive China in check, a former senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. Randall Schriver, former assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific [...]