South Korea's presidential office said it will build a "perfect" security partnership with a new U.S. administration.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was expected to speak to the U.S. president-elect.
Seoul is a staunch U.S. ally in the region, with some 28,500 American troops stationed in South Korea as part of efforts to deter nuclear-armed North Korea.
For the past two and a half years since Yoon became president, no one on either side of the political aisle in the United States had questioned the importance of the alliance between South Korea and the United States as well as the need to develop it on a global level.
Washington and Seoul agreed on a new five-year plan on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee in the U.S. election, had during his presidency accused South Korea of "free-riding" on U.S. military might, and demanded that it pay as much as $5 billion a year for the U.S. deployment.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was expected to speak to the U.S. president-elect.
Seoul is a staunch U.S. ally in the region, with some 28,500 American troops stationed in South Korea as part of efforts to deter nuclear-armed North Korea.
For the past two and a half years since Yoon became president, no one on either side of the political aisle in the United States had questioned the importance of the alliance between South Korea and the United States as well as the need to develop it on a global level.
Washington and Seoul agreed on a new five-year plan on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee in the U.S. election, had during his presidency accused South Korea of "free-riding" on U.S. military might, and demanded that it pay as much as $5 billion a year for the U.S. deployment.
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