America Shouldn't Remove Troops from South Korea

America Shouldn't Remove Troops from South Korea

Using U.S. troop levels in the South as a bargaining chip with the North would impair fundamental and overriding American strategic interests.

Andrew Taffer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard University.

Image: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he welcomes South Korea's President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque