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Seoul to send vessel to Strait of Hormuz after US pressure

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South Korea will not be part of US naval mission but will liaise with Americans. FMTNews Seoul

Anti-war activists rally against decision to send troops to Strait of Hormuz, in Seoul.

Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping vessels in the strait, a strategic choke point for the world’s oil trade where the US has deployed a naval mission. The defence ministry said in a statement that Seoul had decided to “temporarily expand” the deployment area of its anti-piracy military unit operating off the coast of Somalia to include the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, which are linked by the Strait of Hormuz.

Seoul and Washington are in a security alliance but their relations have been strained by the Trump administration’s demands the South pay billions of dollars more towards the costs of 28,500 US troops stationed in the country to protect it from the nuclear-armed North.

 

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