{"id":159073,"date":"2026-10-20T21:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159073"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:52:49","slug":"us-troops-in-south-korea-must-be-ready-for-missions-beyond-peninsula-commander-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159073","title":{"rendered":"US troops in South Korea must be ready for missions beyond peninsula, commander says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe commander of the US Eighth Army in South Korea said his troops must be ready for deployment outside the Korean peninsula if ordered, arguing that it would be \u201cirresponsible\u201d to focus \u201cmyopically\u201d on threats there.<br \/>\nLieutenant General Joe Hilbert said that while his command\u2019s focus was on fulfilling US commitments under its mutual defence treaty with Seoul, the Eighth Army\u2019s location did not limit the missions it could undertake.<br \/>\nIt would be \u201cirresponsible to focus myopically\u201d on threats on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3371562\/us-troops-south-korea-must-be-ready-missions-beyond-peninsula-commander-says\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe commander of the US Eighth Army in South Korea said his troops must be ready for deployment outside the Korean peninsula if ordered,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}