{"id":367152,"date":"2018-06-28T20:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-says-has-ironclad-commitment-to-south-korea-security\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:08:54","slug":"presstv-us-says-has-ironclad-commitment-to-south-korea-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-says-has-ironclad-commitment-to-south-korea-security\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US says has &#8216;ironclad&#8217; commitment to South Korea security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the United States has an \u201cironclad\u201d commitment to South Korea\u2019s security and will maintain its current number of troops on the Korean Peninsula, despite the suspension of some joint military drills with Seoul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon chief made the comment during a brief visit to Seoul on his way from China to Japan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US commitment to the Republic of Korea remains ironclad, and the US will continue to use the full range of diplomatic and military capabilities to uphold this commitment,\u201d Mattis told his South Korean counterpart, Song Young-moo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180628\/e02ddf98-f3d9-490d-92c6-ed3887f22ad7.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (2<sup>nd<\/sup>-L) is greeted by South Korea\u2019s Defense Minister Song Young-moo (3<sup>rd<\/sup>-L) on his arrival at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, on June 28, 2018. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mattis also defended US President Donald Trump\u2019s decision this month to suspend large-scale \u201cwar games\u201d with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/28\/566341\/US-South-Korea-drills-Mattis-North-Korea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the United States has an \u201cironclad\u201d commitment to South Korea\u2019s security and will maintain its current number of troops on the Korean Peninsula, despite the suspension of some joint military drills with Seoul. The Pentagon chief made the comment during a brief visit to Seoul on his way from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}