The American president said Washington should seek to purchased the leased sites from Seoul
US President Donald Trump has said he would like the United States to obtain ownership of the land where its military bases are located in South Korea, instead of leasing it.
Sitting alongside South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae-myung, on Monday, Trump claimed that Washington has invested heavily in infrastructure on the Korean Peninsula and maintains “over 40,000 troops” there, yet the land under those facilities remains leased from Seoul.
“Maybe one of the things I’d like to do is ask them to give us ownership of the land where we have the big fort,”…
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