[Iran Press TV] The United States is planning to keep an artillery brigade stationed near the buffer zone that separates North and South Korea.
South Korea asked the US to keep the 2nd Infantry Division's 210th Fires Brigade at Camp Casey in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) earlier this week during military consultations in Seoul, South Korea's Yonhap News reported.
American officials in the meetings "repeatedly and strongly" pushed to keep the unit in Dongducheon in order to maintain combat readiness, as the rest of American forces are set to relocate to the southern half of South Korea, the report said.
A spokeswoman for US Forces Korea said Friday that "any decision to temporarily leave US forces north of the Han (River) will be based on operational necessity. The goal of all (South Korean) and US alliance initiatives is to build adaptive capabilities to deter and defeat future provocations and fight and win should deterrence fail." |