Pentagon’s Esper says S.Korea should pay more for American military
2019-11-16 09:03:40 source：Global Times
November 15, 2019
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper pressed South Korea on Friday to pay more for the cost of stationing US troops in the country and to maintain an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan that Seoul is about to let lapse.
Speaking after a high-level defense policy meeting with his South Korean counterpart Jeong Kyeong-doo, Esper also said the two countries have to be flexible with their joint military drills. But he stopped short of announcing any changes to exercises next month that North Korea has sharply condemned.
The United States and South Korea are scrambling to clinch an agreement in the coming weeks to cover next year's costs of maintaining the 28,500-strong US military presence.
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