WASHINGTON, (Xinhua) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said on Tuesday that he had not given requests to pull back U.S. troops from South Korea, yet adding the Pentagon would keep on directing alterations at each performance center order.
"I've given no requests to pull back powers from the Korean Peninsula," Esper reacted to an inquiry on potential U.S. power rebuild in South Korea at a research organization occasion.
While he likewise said that he would take a gander at each geographic battle order to actualize U.S. national barrier procedure.
"So we will keep on taking a gander at the changes at each order we have in each auditorium to ensure we are enhancing our powers," he included.
Esper's comments came as the Trump organization is gauging the chance of diminishing U.S. troops on the Korean Peninsula.
U.S. media announced as of late that the Pentagon had given the White House alternatives for the conceivable decrease of the U.S. troop nearness in South Korea, in the midst of a fight with Seoul where Washington is requesting altogether more money to keep U.S. powers there.
A U.S. military authority told the Wall Street Journal that the Pentagon evaluated the 28,500 U.S. troops positioned in South Korea, as a component of a more extensive glance at moving arrangements around the world.
Trump has caused a lot of uneasiness in Washington by undermining partners that he would expel U.S. troops from different vital territories. A month ago the organization reported it would pull a huge number of troops from Germany, asserting that Berlin isn't paying a lot of NATO costs.
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