USFK Gangsters
The parliament’s budget office in South Korea pointed out on June 20 that the share taken up by defense expenses was much too high, given the limited economic size and financial structure of South Korea. The office added that the additional expenses already covered by South Korea were not recognized. It argued that its share should be decreased corresponding to reduced U.S. contributions to South Korean national security owing to strategic flexibility, while the burdens for security of South Korea have been increasing.
The government of South Korea has shared the defense expenses because U.S. forces functioned as a buffer against North Korea. If U.S. forces in South Korea were to confront not only North Korea but also China and Russia, however, the share could be reduced. The demands of the U.S. for increasing South Korea’s share of the expenses are nothing better than those of gangsters.
If equitable cost sharing is so expensive than go by your own stealth bombers, spy satellites, signal intelligence monitoring equipment, nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, PATRIOTs, tomahawks, Apache attack helicopters, etc. When put like that, USFK is an absolute bargain.
