{"id":5425,"date":"2025-05-16T06:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:59:32","slug":"u-s-troops-in-south-korea-tohelp-contain-china-the-issue-ofstrategic-flexibility-has-again-become-the-focus-of-south-koreas-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=5425","title":{"rendered":"U. S. troops in South Korea to\u201cHelp contain China\u201d? The issue of\u201cStrategic flexibility\u201d has again become the focus of South Korea&#8217;s attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former senior US defense official said the new edition of the national defense strategy could prompt the US and South Korea to explore\u201cGreater flexibility\u201d for US forces in South Korea, joongang Ilbo reported Monday, to help contain a\u201cTough China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Defense has launched a new round of national defense strategy, prioritizing curbing the\u201cChina threat\u201d and strengthening the sharing of responsibilities among allies. South Korean media said, in this context, nearly 29,000 troops stationed in South Korea U. S. military\u201cStrategic flexibility\u201d issue once again became the focus of South Korean society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5426 aligncenter\" title=\"b88e2b556c2bc3f33688b1cc76a70e66u5\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b88e2b556c2bc3f33688b1cc76a70e66u5.jpg\" alt=\"b88e2b556c2bc3f33688b1cc76a70e66u5\" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b88e2b556c2bc3f33688b1cc76a70e66u5.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b88e2b556c2bc3f33688b1cc76a70e66u5-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b88e2b556c2bc3f33688b1cc76a70e66u5-768x457.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nMay 9, Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Military Osan Air Base stationed in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>S. Defense Department, former Assistant Secretary of indo-pacific security affairs Sherryford 14, attended the think tank\u201cIndo-pacific security institute\u201d activities, said the U. S. military in South Korea&#8217;s strategic flexibility has been\u201cA realistic need. The us-south Korea Alliance will have to discuss how to expand co-operation to meet China&#8217;s challenges in the future. The role of US forces in South Korea should not be limited to a peninsula defence that is\u201cOperational tonight\u201d but should play a role in broader regional security matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreater strategic flexibility means forces in South Korea will be involved in a broader range of expeditions, including responding to regional emergencies &#8212; further deviating from their traditional mission of containing North Korea,\u201d Yonhap said, this again raises the question of how the US can ensure its security commitment to its Asian allies. V (singer) Seoul, a professor of Sookmyung Women&#8217;s University, warned that Washington could use the issue of \u201cStrategic flexibility\u201d to put pressure on Seoul to pay more for its military presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former senior US defense official said the new edition of the national defense strategy could prompt the US and South Korea to explore\u201cGreater flexibility\u201d for US forces in South&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,266],"tags":[781,2371,2372,859],"views":352,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}