Korea Times

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Posted at 11:16am on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

U.S. Korea Command: No Immediate Troop Rotation from Peninsula

The Korea Times reported on February 4, 2010:

"The U.S. Forces Korea command denied, Thursday, local reports that U.S. troops in South Korea could be rotated to other regions flexibly in the near future.

"There are currently no plans to deploy U.S. units from the peninsula," the command said in a statement.

Following the release of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) earlier this week, Korean media outlets speculated that U.S. troops would be deployed to other regions where the U.S. faces conflict after the implementation of three-year, family-accompanied tours by U.S. troops on the peninsula is complete.

The QDR 2010 indicates that U.S. troops overseas will be readjusted in a tailored and flexible manner in response to emerging global threats.

"Normalization of tours in Korea will not be complete in three to four years, as reported. At the earliest, we anticipate full implementation of tour normalization will not be complete until much later in this decade, and it is being implemented in close coordination with the ROK government," the statement said."

The full story:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/02/116_60334.html