The Pentagon has announced that the Department of Defense and South Korea have reached a new cost-sharing agreement for the country to fund over 4,000 Korean nationals who work for US Forces Korea through the end of 2020
The department said in a statement that the $200 million agreement"is a direct reflection of the United States' commitment to readiness, to our Korean employees, and to the Alliance -- 'the linchpin of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.'"The Trump administration had originally sought last year to get Seoul to pay some $1.
The department said that absent an agreement,"critical defense infrastructure projects will remain suspended, all logistics support contracts for USFK will continue to be paid completely by the U.S., and burden sharing will remain out of balance for an Alliance that values and desires parity.
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