South Korea May Cut Troops in Iraq
South Korea may cut troop levels in Iraq:
South Korea may reduce its troop numbers in Iraq by one third from November.
Kim Sung-Gon, head of the ruling Uri Party’s policy coordination committee, says the measure could be the compromise necessary to win approval from parliament for the extension of the mission.
South Korea currently has 3,200 troops in Iraq.
The cuts are proposed due to public opinion about the war. I have been against any troop deployment in Iraq for soldiers doing nothing except appeasing the US and bargaining for reconstruction contracts. Currently Korea has 3,200 soldiers on an airfield in Iraq doing nothing, so what is the difference if you have over 2,000 soldiers stuck on an airfield doing nothing?
What were the ROK soldiers actually doing ? I saw some reports on glad-handing, but I never saw anything that could be considered "real work".