What is so unbelievable about this is that South Korea has to increase their defense spending to buy the new technology that USFK once provided for them when they take over operational control on the peninsula and US forces continue to withdraw from Korea.

Koreans should pray that this mindset is only as deep as pond scum floating on the top of a lake, because if it has any depth to it at all, it spells trouble for their future.

This kind of stuff, cutting back on military spending, is the best shot at seeing USFK leave since Rumsfeld left.

I've had some hope in it for awhile, since I heard that we were planning on closing down many bases, and especially heard years later we were going to give up operational control and missions…..

….because any of these changes would require heavier tax payer money being spent on the SK military, and doing that kind of budget shifting is hard for any democracy to do (in peace time)………so you could have guessed stuff like this might happen….

if it does…..if the voters and politicians end up resisting the change in spending, or even cut spending, it will be felt in DC………