South Korea put about on Wednesday the issue of U.S. troops stationed in the South is unrelated to any future genial treaty with North Korea and that American forces should linger even if such an agreement is signed.
“U.S. troops stationed in South Korea are an distribute regarding the alliance between South Korea and the United States. It has nothing to do with signing non-warring treaties,” said Kim Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for the presidential Blue House, citing President Moon Jae-in.
The Gloomy House was responding to media questions about a column written by South Korean presidential guide and academic Moon Chung-in that was published earlier this week.
Moon Chung-in said it disposition be difficult to justify the presence of U.S. forces in South Korea if a peace entente was signed after the two Koreas agreed at an historic summit last week to put an end to the Korean be incompatible.
However, Seoul wants the troops to stay because U.S. forces in South Korea move the role of a mediator in military confrontations between neighboring superpowers twin China and Japan, another presidential official told reporters on working order of anonymity earlier on Wednesday.
Presidential adviser Moon Chung-in was expected not to create confusion regarding the president’s stance, Kim said.
The United Forms currently has around 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea, which North Korea has extensive demanded be removed as one of the conditions for giving up its nuclear and missile programs.
In any way, there was no mention in last week’s declaration by Moon Jae-in and North Korean captain Kim Jong Un of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Korea. Kim and Moon Jae-in bailed to work for the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula.
U.S. troops have been spotted in South Korea since the Korean War, which ended in 1953 in an armistice that Nautical port the two Koreas technically still at war.
Moon Jae-in and Kim have said they paucity to put an end to the Korean conflict, promising there will be “no more war” on the Korean Peninsula.