{"id":9957,"date":"2025-11-04T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hegseth-says-flexibility-needed-for-u-s-forces-in-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:07:09","slug":"hegseth-says-flexibility-needed-for-u-s-forces-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hegseth-says-flexibility-needed-for-u-s-forces-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth says \u2018flexibility\u2019 needed for U.S. forces in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Amid the growing threat of conflict with China, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hinted Tuesday that Washington is eyeing &ldquo;flexibility&rdquo; for using American troops stationed in South Korea in the event of a &ldquo;regional contingency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, speaking at a joint news conference in Seoul with his South Korean counterpart, said that while &ldquo;holding the line and protecting our ally&rdquo; from North Korea remains the &ldquo;core&rdquo; of the two countries&rsquo; alliance, the U.S. was keeping an eye on &ldquo;a lot of other threats in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt that flexibility for a regional contingency is something we would take a look at,&rdquo; Hegseth said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Hegseth says &lsquo;flexibility&rsquo; needed for U.S. forces in South Korea<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the growing threat of conflict with China, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hinted Tuesday that Washington is eyeing &ldquo;flexibility&rdquo; for using American troops stationed in South Korea in the event of a &ldquo;regional contingency.&rdquo; Hegseth, speaking at a joint news conference in Seoul with his South Korean counterpart, said that while &ldquo;holding the line&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hegseth-says-flexibility-needed-for-u-s-forces-in-south-korea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hegseth says \u2018flexibility\u2019 needed for U.S. forces in South Korea&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}