For the love of god lets hope this is true:

The government says it is not considering redeploying troops to Afghanistan.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young dismissed a media report that the United States is requesting South Korea’s troop deployment.

But Moon noted that the two countries are discussing Seoul’s expanded role in rebuilding the war-torn country.  [KBS Global]

This issue could be a cause the Korean left could use to moblize against Lee Myung-bak if he does decide to deploy troops.  I have been saying this for a while but there should be no Korean troops sent to Afghanistan for reasons I have outlined before. Doesn’t the US have enough allies doing little or nothing in Afghanistan, why add more?