Despite a series of meetings,... South Korea and the United States are still having a hard time trying to narrow the gap on sharing the cost of American troops stationed in Korea.
Citing diplomatic sources,... South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reports that Washington is asking Seoul to contribute one billion U.S. dollars annually,... which is a 15 percent increase from what Seoul paid last year.
However, the South Korean government is asking for its defense contribution to be kept under one trillion won,... or some 880 million dollars.