The Korea Times | Ex-Pentagon official downplays concerns over possible USFK pullout in case of Trump’s election

By: Yonhap News Agency | THE KOREA TIMES |

In a TIME magazine interview released late last month, [former U.S. President Donald] Trump questioned the need for U.S. troops to defend Korea, raising concerns in Seoul over a possible pullout of troops if he wins a second presidential term in the upcoming November election.

Randall Schriver, who served as the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs under the Trump administration … [noted in a press conference on April 14, 2024, that] “at the end of the Trump administration, there was a move on the part of Congress to really put a floor under the number of U.S. troops, saying the president couldn’t go below that without the authorization and consent of Congress.”

“What Congress did … by legislating that floor proves that there’s a very strong constituency in our Congress to protect this alliance…”

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