South Korea agrees to pay more for American troops

SEOUL: South Korea and the US struck a new deal on Sunday that increases Seoul’s contribution to the cost of the American military presence on its soil. Negotiators from the two countries signed a cost-sharing plan which requires South Korea to pay about $924 million in 2019, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. The two countries reaffirmed the need for a “stable” US military deployment amid the “rapidly changing situation on the Korean Peninsula.”