Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    Trump's demand that South Korea pay more for US troops leads to impasse

    by David S. Cloud and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Jan 12, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - South Korea is resisting a Trump administration demand for sharply higher payments to defray the cost of basing U.S. forces on its territory, raising fears that President Donald Trump might threaten a troop drawdown at a time of sensitive diplomacy on the Korean peninsula.

    U.S. negotiators have sought a 50 percent increase in Seoul's annual payment, which last year was about $830 million, or about half of the estimated cost of hosting 28,500 U.S. troops, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.

    The U.S. stance reflects Trump's view that U.S. allies have taken advantage of American military protection for decades - a view resented by many South Korean officials,

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times6 min read
    California In A Jam After Borrowing Billions To Pay Unemployment Benefits
    California's massive budget deficit, coupled with the state's relatively high level of joblessness, has become a major barrier to reducing the billions of dollars of debt it has incurred to pay unemployment benefits. The surge in unemployment brought
    Los Angeles Times8 min read
    Free Speech, Campus Safety Collide In USC's Cancellation Of Valedictorian Speech
    LOS ANGELES — Five months ago, USC cited safety as a rationale for banning economics professor John Strauss, who is Jewish, from campus after student activists said they felt threatened when he approached them at a protest and said "Hamas are murdere
    Los Angeles Times4 min readAmerican Government
    Commentary: Don’t Want Biden Or Trump To Have So Much Power? Maybe The US Needs A Poly-presidency
    At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson brought up a seemingly un-American idea. He said the executive branch of America’s government should be headed by a single person: a president. Several constitutional delega

    Related Books & Audiobooks