According to a report by Reuters, on Tuesday, the Pentagon's nominee to be the next commander of US forces in South Korea said that there was a significant amount of tactical risk if the United States' military presence were removed from the Korean peninsula. U.S. Army General Robert Abrams reportedly said, “Tactically, without any mention of any change in his conventional capability, I’d say that there would be a significant amount of risk tactically if we were to do that.