{"id":2005,"date":"2007-12-14T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/korean-troops-out-of-afghanistan\/2005\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T18:01:41","slug":"korean-troops-out-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/korean-troops-out-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean troops out of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"Htmlphcontrol1\" class=\"DetaildSuammary\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">South Korean troops have returned home from <country-region w:st=\"on\">\n<place w:st=\"on\">Afghanistan<\/place><\/country-region>, ending the country&#8217;s five-year contribution to US-led forces there. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">The pullout of 195 troops \u2014 mostly medics and engineers &#8211; was part of a pledge <country-region w:st=\"on\">\n<place w:st=\"on\">South Korea<\/place><\/country-region> gave to the Taliban to ensure the freedom of 23 hostages taken captive earlier this year. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><input name=\"Htmlphcontrol1:btnCheckLength\" type=\"submit\" onclick=\"return getSelectedText('_KtuluBody1');\" style=\"display: none\" id=\"Htmlphcontrol1_btnCheckLength\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" style=\"display: none\">\n<tr>\n<td><script language=\"javascript\">  bodyVariable350=\"Htmlphcontrol1_lblError\";<\/script><\/td>\n<td><span id=\"Htmlphcontrol1_lblError\"><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table height=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span id=\"Htmlphcontrol2\" class=\"DetaildSuammary\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">\n<place w:st=\"on\"><country-region w:st=\"on\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">South Korea<\/span><\/country-region><\/place><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> had already announced its decision to withdraw the troops before the hostage crisis.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">The Taliban killed two male South Korean captives before freeing all 21 others in August.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><input name=\"Htmlphcontrol2:btnCheckLength\" type=\"submit\" onclick=\"return getSelectedText('_KtuluBody2');\" style=\"display: none\" id=\"Htmlphcontrol2_btnCheckLength\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" style=\"display: none\">\n<tr>\n<td><script language=\"javascript\">  bodyVariable300=\"Htmlphcontrol2_lblError\";<\/script><\/td>\n<td><span id=\"Htmlphcontrol2_lblError\"><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table height=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellPadding=\"0\" cellSpacing=\"0\" style=\"display: inline\" id=\"ServicesList\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" id=\"tdRelated\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"5\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span id=\"Htmlplaceholdercontrol1\" class=\"DetaildSuammary\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">Despite the withdrawal, <city w:st=\"on\">Seoul<\/city> plans to send up to 30 people, including five soldiers, to <country-region w:st=\"on\">Afghanistan<\/country-region> in January to run a hospital that had been managed by South Korean troops at the <country-region w:st=\"on\">US<\/country-region> military base in Bagram, north of <city w:st=\"on\">\n<place w:st=\"on\">Kabul<\/place><\/city>.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">Separately, <country-region w:st=\"on\">South Korea<\/country-region> has said it is preparing to pull out about 350 troops from\n<place w:st=\"on\"><country-region w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/country-region><\/place>, out of nearly 1,000 it has deployed there, at the beginning of next week.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">Roh Moo-hyun, the South Korean president, has said recently he intends to extend the <country-region w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/country-region> deployment to boost his country&#8217;s alliance with the <country-region w:st=\"on\">\n<place w:st=\"on\">US<\/place><\/country-region>, but the deployment had been widely criticised. <\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">An extension to the mission is subject to parliamentary approval.<\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\">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.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/040AE63D-FB6F-4D06-8D9B-DA333C9FECA1.htm\">Agencies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean troops have returned home from Afghanistan, ending the country&#8217;s five-year contribution to US-led forces there. \u00a0 The pullout of 195 troops \u2014 mostly medics and engineers &#8211; was part of a pledge South Korea gave to the Taliban to ensure the freedom of 23 hostages taken captive earlier this year. 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