When I first read this, I thought, "Good, because the old one scared the crap outta me when I was there for a year". Basically, the old called for all of the grunts in country to stop the N. Koreans and the Chinese from steam rolling through Seoul until a couple of Divisions got there in about 2-3 weeks. Sounds like the new one is just a rehash of the old.
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Fox News
SEOUL, South Korea The United States would dispatch 690,000 troops and 2,000 warplanes if war breaks out on the Korean peninsula (search), according to a South Korean defense policy paper released Friday.
The brief revealed South Korean efforts to redefine its 50-year-old stalemate with the communist North and readjust its alliance with the United States.
The commitment of U.S. troops in the event of war appears aimed at easing concerns that Washington is using U.S. troops in South Korea as a rapid deployment force, which could create a vacuum in the world's last remaining Cold War (search) flashpoint.
"The reinforcement plan reflects a strong U.S. commitment to defending South Korea," the South Korean memo said. Washington and its allies have been trying to end the North's nuclear weapons programs through multinational disarmament talks.
North Korea, already armed with large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, is resisting U.S. pressure to give up its nuclear weapons programs. Three rounds of six-nation talks aimed at ending the programs produced no breakthroughs.
North Korea (search), which accuses the United States and South Korea of preparing to invade over its nuclear weapons programs, has added more artillery pieces and missiles to its Korean People's Army, already the world's fifth-largest, it said. The number of North Korean troops remained unchanged at 1.17 million.
