US Considering Bringing Troops Home from S.Korea: Rumsfeld

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US Considering Bringing Troops Home from S.Korea: Rumsfeld

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the United States is considering redeploying its troops in South Korea to move them southward or out of the country altogether.

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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the United States is considering redeploying its troops in South Korea to move them southward or out of the country altogether.

During a meeting with Pentagon employees and military personnel,Rumsfeld said Gen. Leon Laporte, commander of US forces in South Korea, "is engaged in a consultative process with the South Korean government" on the redeployment.

"We still have a lot of forces in Korea today arranged very farforward where it is intrusive in their lives, and where they are not very flexible and usable for other things," Rumsfeld said.

"Whether the forces will come home or whether they move furthersouth of peninsula or whether to some neighboring area are the kind of things that are being sorted out," he said.

The United States has about 37,000 troops in South Korea, most of them have been stationed near the Demilitarized Zone since theend of the Korean war.

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