China's nationalistic tabloid Global Times said on Aug. 24 that the United States is unlikely to pull its troops from South Korea as the Korean peninsula is still considered a buffer zone from the perspectives of both Beijing and Washington.
A commentary published by Russian-language newspaper Reklama on Aug. 22 said the United States has the "tradition of provoking conflict" with North Korea annually — by conducting military drills with the South — because it needs a pretext to continue the deployment of American troops on the Korean peninsula. The peninsula is considered an outpost for the United States for military confrontation with China in a future conflict, the Russian paper claimed.
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