{"id":475472,"date":"2010-03-26T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-us-military-in-korea-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-26T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:18:07","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-the-u-s-military-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475472","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About The U.S. Military In Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United State military has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfk.mil\/usfk\/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\">significant presence<\/a> in South Korea, designed as a conflict trip wire that would immediately bring the United States into war with North Korea if they act agressively against South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has aproximately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/68465\">29,000 troops<\/a> in South Korea, present since the Korean War. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The alliance between the two countries binds the U.S. to defending South Korea if they are attacked<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalaniosullivan.com\/KunsanAB\/8thFW\/Pics\/KoreaMapUSFKCamp.gif\">From kalaniosullivan: <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bacddd37f8b9ae305af0100\/us-military-south-korea.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"US Military South Korea\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-us-military-in-korea-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/best-cities-for-finding-work-2010-3\">And Now Here Are The 20 MOST Employed Cities In America<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sen-coburns-healthcare-amendments-2010-3\">Senator Coburn&#8217;s 9 Bold Healthcare Amendments That Will Never Be Approved<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-why-americas-health-care-is-still-going-to-be-ridiculously-expensive-2010-3\">Why America&#8217;s Health Care Is Still Going To Be Ridiculously Expensive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Yh3W6pCDOyk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United State military has a significant presence in South Korea, designed as a conflict trip wire that would immediately bring the United States into war with North Korea if they act agressively against South Korea. The U.S. has aproximately 29,000 troops in South Korea, present since the Korean War. The alliance between the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}