South Korea-U.S. Agreement Uncertain

This is a South Korea news story, published by VOA, that relates primarily to John Bolton news.

South Korea news

For more South Korea news, you can click here:

more South Korea news

John Bolton news

For more John Bolton news, you can click here:

more John Bolton news

News about Asia politics

For more Asia politics news, you can click here:

more Asia politics news

VOA news

For more news from VOA, you can click here:

more news from VOA

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best world news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like this article about Asia politics, you might also like this article about

South Korea

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest Korea news, SMA agreement news, news about Asia politics, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

SMA negotiations

VOA

•

Experts: Future of US-South Korea defense cost-sharing deal remains uncertain

Summary

Nutrition label

76% Informative

U.S. and South Korea reached a new cost-sharing agreement with South Korea last week .

The five-year agreement requires South Korea to raise its contribution to the cost of stationing of US troops in the country by 8.3% to $1.47 billion in the first year .

The two allies reached the agreement earlier than expected, a move widely seen as key for Seoul and Washington to clinch before November election.

John Bolton , a former White House national security adviser during the Trump administration, told VOA Korean that “it’s very likely that Trump would ask to renegotiate it.

VOA Korean contacted the Trump campaign this week and asked what Trump ’s stance was on the newly reached agreement, but did not receive a reply by the time this article was published.

“ Seoul and Washington understand that Trump is very transactional,” Armitage said. “But American soldiers are not Hessians . We're not for rent. We’re in Korea because it's in our interest.”.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful