The Pentagon pushed back Friday on a Wall Street Journal report that the Trump administration is considering withdrawing thousands of American troops from South Korea, calling the news “not true.”

The Journal first reported Thursday that the Defense Department [DOD] was developing an option to pull out roughly 4,500 troops and move them to other locations in the Indo-Pacific region, including to Guam, citing Defense officials familiar with the discussions.

The idea would be presented to President Trump as part of an informal policy review on dealing with North Korea, and is one of several ideas under discussion, two officials told........

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