America Shouldn't Remove Troops from South Korea

While there is a need for the United States to assure its allies of its commitment to their security, using troop levels as a bargaining chip with the North would do the opposite. It would exacerbate U.S. allies' existing fears about American reliability and could well encourage them, much as Manila has done, to increasingly hedge against the possibility of abandonment by accommodating Chinese interests. For this reason, there can be little doubt that in their meetings over the past couple of months , Chinese President Xi Jinping has impressed on Kim the importance of negotiating down U.S. force levels in the South....