{"id":37252,"date":"2018-06-12T18:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T18:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/06\/12\/trumps-proposed-troop-moves-in-south-korea-raise-concerns-for-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:14:25","slug":"trumps-proposed-troop-moves-in-south-korea-raise-concerns-for-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2018\/06\/12\/trumps-proposed-troop-moves-in-south-korea-raise-concerns-for-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s proposed troop moves in South Korea raise concerns for lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/06\/12\/pentagon-assessing-trump-directive-to-cancel-korea-military-exercises\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">possible U.S. troop moves<\/a> as part of his summit with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2018\/06\/11\/ahead-of-trump-kim-summit-heres-a-look-at-north-koreas-missile-tests\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un<\/a> drew concerns from some Republican lawmakers on Tuesday and condemnation from numerous Democratic critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a press conference Tuesday following the hours-long summit in Singapore, Trump said that it would be \u201cinappropriate to be having war games\u201d while U.S. and North Korean officials work out agreements \u201cto build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also noted that the United States has t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/04\/18\/us-forces-in-korea-arent-packing-up-just-yet-heres-why\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">housands of service members stationed in South Korea<\/a> that \u201cI would like to be able to bring them back home\u201d but said those troops withdrawals aren\u2019t part of negotiations right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials from the Pentagon and the South Korean military have said they would review Trump\u2019s remarks but have made no moves yet to cancel any joint exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/12\/pentagon-assessing-trump-directive-to-cancel-korea-military-exercises\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18163082897748.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to cancel military exercises with South Korea \u2014 what happens next?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Troops are staying put, for now \u2014 but the joint Republic of Korea-U.S. exercises may be canceled.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of his own party said they would give the commander in chief latitude on the issue of suspending military exercises but provide much harsher scrutiny on any military personnel drawdowns in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo moving troops,\u201d said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. \u201cAs far as moving troops off the Korean Peninsula, we need to stay there. We don\u2019t just move our troops, no.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow committee member Lindsey Graham echoed that sentiment in an appearance on \u201cCBS This Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t mind putting these exercises on hold. Over the arc of time, the exercises won\u2019t matter,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the one thing I would object to violently is withdrawing our forces from South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChina is trying to play president Trump through North Korea. China\u2019s goal for decades is to drive us out of Asia. If we withdraw our forces, and that\u2019s part of a deal, I can\u2019t support the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Seapower Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., favored conducting the exercises but understood suspending them as a goodwill gesture \u2014 since they can be reinstated if talks collapse or Kim cheats on any future deal. But troop withdrawals were more sensitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t want any troop drawdown unless there is a repeatedly verifiably and irreversible denuclearization. Period,\u201d Wittman said, adding: \u201cI understand backing off the exercises, but I don\u2019t think if you\u2019re going to be effective in this \u2014 in keeping North Korea\u2019s feet to the fire \u2014 that you can in any way shape or form pull back any of our presence in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a roundtable with reporters on Tuesday morning, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., said the change in exercises or troop deployments \u201chadn\u2019t been in any of the conversations I had been in\u201d leading up to the summit. He called their inclusion troubling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut the idea that the president has said this is might be on the table doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a signed agreement,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a negotiating tenet yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But other Republicans said they were less alarmed by the promises surrounding U.S. military forces. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Trump still has months before the next major exercise with South Korea to decide whether Kim Jong Un is living up to his promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI believe that Donald Trump is going to continue the campaign of maximum pressure, and he will not grant one-sided unilateral concessions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and the chamber\u2019s No. 2 leader, called the president\u2019s opening offer \u201csurprising,\u201d but also \u201ca demonstration of good faith in the interest to keep the conversation going,\u201d adding \u201cI\u2019m not too concerned about the process by which we get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe way I look at it is if you\u2019re talking, you\u2019re not fighting, and we need to avoid a military conflict if we can,\u201d Cornyn said. \u201cA lot of innocent people would die in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats were more skeptical. Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate\u2019s No. 2 Democrat and ranking member of the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, chastised Trump for calling the he exercises as \u201cprovocative\u201d and said he hoped Seoul was consulted on the decision. It was unclear to him whether troop withdrawals are really in play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have 28,000 uniformed and another 100,000-plus civilian on the South Korean Peninsula, and before we start moving them, we should be careful of their safety an the safety of South Korea,\u201d Durbin, D-Ill., told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called the joint military exercises \u201cserious and significant\u201d in projecting U.S. power in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCancelling them is a troubling step, especially without any real advances towards denuclearization,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to know from the Pentagon what this step means in practical terms, and whether it possibly compromises our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. 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