• Company
  • Products online
  • News terminal

Products online

  • News terminal
  • Caspian Oil & Gas Trends
  • Monthly Azerbaijan Business Monitoring
  • Weekly Azerbaijan Business Monitoring
  • Caspian, Turkey Building & Logistics Monitoring
  • Azerbaijan Energy Projects Review
  • Azerbaijan Banking Analytics
  • Iran Energy Economy Review
  • Central Asia Economic Outlook
  • Weekly Tenders Report
  • Azerbaijan Industry Agriculture Review
  • Azerbaijan Monthly IСT Monitoring
  • Regional Finance
ORDER TRIAL VERSION

Company

  • About company
  • Trend Information Service
  • Vacancies

Communications

  • Reference
  • Achievements

For clients

  • How to subscribe
  • Instant paid access
  • Support service

Trend in social networks

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Telegram
  • RSS
  • IOS
  • Android

Info Services

  • Trend Politics
  • Trend Society
  • Trend Economy
  • Trend Energy
  • Trend ICT
  • Trend Tourism
  • Trend Culture

Contacts

  • Bakhtiyar Vahabzade Str., 14, Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1141.
  • sales@trend.az
  • + 994 12 437-12-68
  • RU
  • AZ
  • EN
  • TR
  • FA
AzerNews.Az Today.Az
  • Login
  • Sign up
Trend.Az
  • Latest
  • Azerbaijan
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    • Society
    • Other News
  • Economy
    • Oil&Gas
    • ICT
    • Finance
    • Business
    • Tenders
    • Tourism
    • Construction
    • Transport
  • Iran
    • Nuclear Program
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Society
  • Central Asia
    • Kyrgyzstan
    • Kazakhstan
    • Turkmenistan
    • Tajikistan
    • Uzbekistan
  • South Caucasus
    • Armenia
    • Georgia
  • World
    • Turkey
    • Europe
    • US
    • Russia
    • Israel
    • China
    • Arab World
    • Other News
  • Latest
  • Azerbaijan
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    • Society
    • Other News
  • Economy
    • Oil&Gas
    • ICT
    • Finance
    • Business
    • Tenders
    • Tourism
    • Construction
    • Transport
  • Iran
    • Nuclear Program
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Society
  • Central Asia
    • Kyrgyzstan
    • Kazakhstan
    • Turkmenistan
    • Tajikistan
    • Uzbekistan
  • South Caucasus
    • Armenia
    • Georgia
  • World
    • Turkey
    • Europe
    • US
    • Russia
    • Israel
    • China
    • Arab World
    • Other News
  • Trend Photo
  • Login
  • Sign up
  • Home
  • World
  • US

U.S., South Korea break off defense cost talks amid backlash over $5 billion demand

19 November 2019 10:07 (UTC+04:00)
  • 0
  • 0

South Korean and U.S. officials broke off talks on Tuesday aimed at settling the cost burden for Seoul of hosting the U.S. military, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said, amid a public backlash over a $5 billion U.S. demand for the bill, Trend with reference to Reuters reports.

The breakdown in talks was a sharp and rare public disagreement in the 66-year alliance, with each side suggesting the other was not prepared to come to a fair and reasonable compromise on sharing the costs for hosting 28,500 U.S. troops as a deterrent to North Korea.

“Our position is that it should be within the mutually acceptable Special Measures Agreement (SMA) framework that has been agreed upon by South Korea and the U.S. for the past 28 years,” South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said, referring to the cost-sharing deal’s official name.

“The U.S. believes that the share of defense spending should be increased significantly by creating a new category,” the ministry said in a statement.

The top U.S. negotiator, James DeHart, said the Americans cut short the talks to “give the Korean side some time to reconsider and I hope to put forward new proposals that would enable both sides to work toward a mutually acceptable agreement in the spirit of our great alliance.”

“Unfortunately, the proposals that were put forward by the Korean negotiating team were not responsive to our request for fair and equitable burden sharing,” DeHart told a briefing.

Negotiators left the table after only about one hour of discussions that were scheduled to continue throughout the day, South Korean media reported, citing unnamed foreign ministry officials.

Follow Trend on Telegram. Only most interesting and important news

  • Tags:
  • South Korea
  • US
Related news
US Air Products and Chemicals company to help Uzbekistan set up carbon dioxide production
Business 16:14
China auto sales expected to drop by 2% in 2020
China 14:01
US eyes to support Kazakhstan in introduction of satellite internet access
ICT 11:55
Oil prices gain as OPEC revises deficit forecast
Oil&Gas 09:45
Second U.S. law firm files London forex class action
US 11 December 17:09
Kazakhstan's QazTech Ventures to join V Global Fund
Business 11 December 14:03
Latest
Police detains 12 people near Georgian parliament
Georgia 17:08
Baku-Mashhad direct flights to be launched
Transport 17:05
Uzbek-Korean JV opens tender to buy chemical reagents
Tenders 17:05
$125B worth goods exported from Iran's free zones
Business 17:03
Cargo transportation from Turkey to Uzbekistan increases
Turkey 17:02
Cargo transportation from Turkey to Syria increases
Turkey 17:01
NEVASCO eyes to introduce air quality monitoring in major Kazakhstan's cities (Exclusive)
Business 16:58
Nokia says Daimler, others agreed to mediation to resolve licensing dispute
Europe 16:50
Cargo transportation from Turkey to Georgia increases
Turkey 16:42
Most popular
President Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva visit grave of national leader Heydar Aliyev (PHOTO)
President Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva visit grave of national leader Heydar Aliyev (PHOTO)
Mammadyarov: Azerbaijan considers the Netherlands close ally, reliable partner
Turkey can contribute to Russia-NATO rapprochement
Azerbaijani Karabakh community ready to live peacefully with Armenians in Karabakh after conflict settlement
Commentary
Turkey can contribute to Russia-NATO rapprochement

Turkey can contribute to Russia-NATO rapprochement

Rob Sobhani: Tree planting initiative in Azerbaijan will become model for other countries
Turkish diplomat: Armenia must fulfill 3 basic demands of Ankara to establish relations
Azernews Newspaper
Trend.Az
  • About
  • Our Team
  • Products online
  • Trend Information Service
  • News terminal
  • News archive
Contacts
14, Bakhtiyar Vahabzade, Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1141
+(994 12) 497-31-72
news@trend.az
+(994 12) 497-30-89
© 2019 Trend News Agency
Terms of use