U.S. House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers speaks at a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington on May 20. [REUTERS/YONHAP]
A U.S. House draft of a defense policy bill for fiscal year 2027 contains language tightening restrictions on the use of funds to reduce the number of U.S. troops stationed in Korea, its text showed on Thursday.
Released by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, the draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year — running from October this year to September next year — shows revised language related to maintaining 28,500 U.S. troops in Korea.
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In the section on the oversight of U.S. military posture on the Korean Peninsula, this year's version says that amounts authorized to be appropriated by the act may not be obligated or expended to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Korea below 28,500.
