SEOUL: South Korean president-elect Roh Moo-hyun has suggested that the 37,000 US troops still in the country half a century after the 1950-53 Korean War can be gone within a decade, making Seoul responsible for its own defence.
The heir to current President Kim Dae-jung tapped anti-American sentiment as he swept to victory in December on a manifesto that backed his mentor’s “sunshine policy” of engaging reclusive communist North Korea.
