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             Pentagon Announces New Troop Deployment to South Korea

   The Pentagon has announced the deployment of an additional 800 troops
   to South Korea, along with combat tanks and other military hardware, as
   Washington seeks to counter any regional threats from North Korea.
   Tuesday`s deployment announcement came as U.S. Secretary of State John
   Kerry met in Washington with his South Korean counterpart, Yun
   Byung-se. Kerry used the meeting to assure Yun of Washington`s
   commitment to South Korea`s nuclear defense, in his words, "so that we
   are prepared to face any threat."
   "The United States and the Republic of Korea stand very firmly united
   without an inch of daylight between us - not a sliver of daylight - on
   the subject of opposition to North Korea`s destabilizing nuclear and
   ballistic missile programs and proliferation activities, and the
   international community stands with us."
   Kerry said the two diplomats are "deeply focused on the challenge of
   North Korea, particularly with events that have taken place in recent
   weeks" in Pyongyang.
   His comments appeared to reference a recent political purge that
   included the execution of the uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
   The killing in December of Jang Song Thaek, a powerful member of the
   politburo, is seen by some Western analysts as a move by Kim to
   consolidate power, and by others as evidence of political instability
   within the North Korean hierarchy.
   A Pentagon statement said elements of the 1st Army Battalion from Ft.
   Hood, Texas will deploy to two locations in South Korea by February 1,
   in what a spokesman described as part of an ongoing shift of U.S.
   military power toward East Asia.
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