President-elect Joe Biden has promised not to use the troop presence to "extort" South Korea. - Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters): With Joe Biden's projected victory in the US presidential election, South Korean officials are expecting a win of their own in a drawn-out, multi-billion dollar dispute with Washington over the cost of thousands of US troops on the peninsula.
Officials and experts in Seoul don't expect Biden to entirely drop the demand that South Korea pay more toward maintaining the roughly 28,500 US troops that are stationed in the country as a legacy of the technically unfinished 1950-1953 Korean War.
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