Top Diplomat Confirms the U.S. Asked to Use South Korean Bases to House Afghan Refugees

I don’t think this is a mission that the Korean government is going to be very eager to support:

The top South Korean diplomat confirmed Monday the United States requested using American military bases here as a housing site for evacuees from war-torn Afghanistan, although there is no related discussion underway now between the allies.

“It is true that (the allies) did discuss the possibility at the very basic level. It, however, was not discussed seriously,” Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong said, responding to a lawmaker’s query during a session of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee. 

The foreign minister said that currently, however, “there’s no such discussion underway at all”, adding that the option of using American military bases on South Korean soil as a refugee camp would absolutely require consent from the South Korean government.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but from the ROK perspective a concern they must have is what happens to refugees that are denied entry to the U.S.? Do they get sent back to Afghanistan or linger in South Korea? Over time will the U.S. ask the ROK to take in some of these refugees? I am sure the ROK has a lot of questions they want answered before they sign up for this.