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Les troupes coréennes du sud sont retournées à la maison de
L'Afghanistan, finissant la contribution de cinq ans du pays aux forces menées par les EU là.
Le dégagement de 195 troupes - la plupart du temps des médecins et des ingénieurs - faisait partie d'un engagement
La Corée du Sud a donné au Taliban pour assurer la liberté de 23 otages pris le captif plus tôt cette année.
La Corée du Sud avait déjà annoncé sa décision pour retirer les troupes avant la crise d'otage.
Le Taliban a tué deux captifs coréens du sud masculins avant de libérer chacun des 21 autres en août.
En dépit du retrait, Séoul
plans to send up to 30 people, including five soldiers, to Afghanistan in January to run a hospital that had been managed by South Korean troops at the US military base in Bagram, north of
Kabul.
Separately, South Korea has said it is preparing to pull out about 350 troops from
Iraq, out of nearly 1,000 it has deployed there, at the beginning of next week.
Roh Moo-hyun, the South Korean president, has said recently he intends to extend the Iraq deployment to boost his country’s alliance with the
US, but the deployment had been widely criticised.
An extension to the mission is subject to parliamentary approval.
A military official said that a plan to submit a motion to the legislature to extend the deployment was in the works, but was unclear whether lawmakers would endorse it.
Agencies
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