The Korea Times
U.S. President Donald Trump may increase his push for strategic flexibility for U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) in response to his growing dissatisfaction with allies, including South Korea, in the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, a security analyst in Seoul said Thursday. Strategic flexibility refers to the ability to redeploy forces stationed in one country to other regions with agility to respond to global contingencies. The analyst’s projection came after a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday that Trump threatened to pull out American troops from NATO member nations that were "unhelpful" during the conflict with Iran before reaching a conditional ceasefire agreement Tuesday. His administration may consider deploying the troops to other countries that were more supportive, it reported. Trump has been using U.S. military forces stationed abroad to exert pressure on countries he is dissatisfied with. Not only NATO members but also South Korea and Japan have been repeatedly mentioned in Trump’s speeches as allies that were not helpful despite U.S. protection from challenges including North Korea
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