FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare options for reducing the number of U.S. troops in South Korea, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing several people briefed on the deliberations.
Reduced U.S. troop levels are not intended to be a bargaining chip in Trump's planned summit in late May or early June with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme, the Times said.
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