{"id":64512,"date":"2018-05-06T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/06\/white-house-denies-us-troop-withdrawal-considered-in-south-korea-as-trump-says-location-for-summit-is-set\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:13:58","slug":"white-house-denies-us-troop-withdrawal-considered-in-south-korea-as-trump-says-location-for-summit-is-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/06\/white-house-denies-us-troop-withdrawal-considered-in-south-korea-as-trump-says-location-for-summit-is-set\/","title":{"rendered":"White House denies US troop withdrawal considered in South Korea as Trump says location for summit is set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump is offering his latest teaser for a historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/06\/north-korea-says-us-ruining-mood-of-detente-ahead-of-summit\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. summit with North Korea<\/a>: The time and place have been set, but he\u2019s not saying when and where.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House on Friday did announce the details of a separate meeting later this month between Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, as Washington pushed back on a report that Trump is considering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/04\/30\/report-john-kelly-talked-trump-out-of-withdrawing-us-troops-from-south-korea\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">withdrawal of U.S. forces<\/a> from its ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump and Moon plan to meet at the White House on May 22 to \u201ccontinue their close coordination on developments regarding the Korean Peninsula\u201d following last Friday\u2019s meeting between Moon and Kim Jong Un. They will also discuss the U.S. president\u2019s own upcoming summit with the North Korean leader, a statement said.<\/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\/news\/your-military\/2018\/05\/03\/will-we-stay-or-will-we-go-a-look-at-removing-us-troops-from-south-korea\/\" 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\/South-Korea-training.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\">Will we stay or will we go? A look at removing US troops from South Korea<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Trump said recently he would consider removing U.S. troops to get a better trade deal with South Korea.<\/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\">Earlier this week, Trump expressed a preference for holding the \u201cbig event\u201d with Kim in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/30\/trump-floats-dmz-as-location-for-north-korea-meeting\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">the demilitarized zone<\/a>, or DMZ, between the two Koreas, where Moon and Kim met. He also said Singapore was in contention to host what will be the first summit of between a U.S. and a North Korean leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe now have a date and we have a location. We\u2019ll be announcing it soon,\u201d Trump told reporters Friday from the White House South Lawn before departing for Dallas. He\u2019s previously said the summit was planned for May or early June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A meeting with Kim seemed an outlandish possibility just a few months ago when the two leaders were trading threats and insults over North Korea\u2019s development of nuclear weapons. But momentum for diplomacy has built this year as the rival Koreas have patched up ties. In March, Trump unexpectedly accepted an offer of talks from Kim after the North Korean dictator agreed to suspend nuclear and ballistic missile tests and discuss \u201cdenuclearization.\u201d<\/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\/04\/18\/us-forces-in-korea-arent-packing-up-just-yet-heres-why\/\" 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=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-927755548.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\">US forces in Korea aren\u2019t packing up just yet. Here\u2019s why.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Any peace deal with North Korea is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the 23,000 U.S. troops deployed on the peninsula.<\/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\">According to South Korea, Kim has said he\u2019d be willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/29\/seoul-north-koreas-kim-vows-to-shut-nuke-test-site-in-may\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">give up his nukes<\/a> if the United States commits to a formal end to the Korean War and pledges not to attack the North. But his exact demands for relinquishing weapons that his nation spent decades building remains unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said that withdrawing U.S. forces from South Korea is \u201cnot on the table.\u201d Some 28,500 U.S. forces are based in the allied nation, a military presence that has been preserved to deter North Korea since the war ended in 1953 without a peace treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow I have to tell you, at some point into the future, I would like to save the money,\u201d Trump said later as he prepared to board Air Force One. \u201cYou know we have 32,000 troops there but I think a lot of great things will happen but troops are not on the table. Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York Times reported that Trump has asked the Pentagon to prepare options plans for drawing down American troops. It cited unnamed officials as saying that wasn\u2019t intended to be a bargaining chip with Kim, but did reflect that a prospective peace treaty between the Koreas could diminish the need for U.S. forces in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18124735111904.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18124735111904.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18124735111904.jpg.jpg?resize=300,204 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18124735111904.jpg.jpg?resize=768,524 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This April 27, 2018, file photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in raising their hands after signing a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the inter-Korean summit last Friday, held on the southern side of the DMZ, Moon and Kim pledged to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons and seek a formal end this year to the Korean conflict where the opposing sides remain technically at war more than six decades after fighting halted with an armistice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for Trump to contemplate withdrawing troops now would be a quixotic move as he enters into negotiations with Kim whose demands and intentions are uncertain. Two weeks ago, shortly before the inter-Korean summit, Moon said that Kim actually wasn\u2019t insisting on a longstanding demand for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as a precondition for abandoning his nukes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National security adviser John Bolton, who met his South Korean counterpart Chung Eui-yong in Washington on Friday, called the Times report \u201cutter nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his presidential campaign, Trump complained that South Korea does not do enough to financially support the American military commitment. In March, Washington and Seoul began negotiations on how much South Korea should offset the costs of the deployment in the coming years. Under the current agreement that expires at the end of 2018, the South provides about $830 million per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Trump meets Kim, Washington is looking for North Korea to address another persistent source of tension between the adversaries: the detention of three Korean-Americans accused of anti-state of activities in the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump hinted that the release of Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim was in the offing, but again was sparing on the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re having very substantive talks with North Korea and a lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages, and I think you\u2019re going to see very good things. As I said yesterday, stay tuned,\u201d Trump said, referring to an earlier tweet on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Ken Thomas contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is offering his latest teaser for a historic U.S. summit with North Korea: The time and place have been set, but he\u2019s not saying when and 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