The United States walked out of the latest round of cost-sharing negotiations with its ally South Korea last week in a rare sign of alliance dissonance. While all negotiations over how much the two allies should pay annually for the non-personnel costs of stationing 28,500 U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula are difficult, this year’s is particularly so because the Trump Administration has called for a more-than-five-fold increase in payments from South Korea ($896 million in 2019 to $5 billion in 2020).
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