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The U.S. media have again highlighted President Donald Trump's inflated numbers regarding military support to South Korea.
According to Washington Post's fact-checker analysis report on Monday,… the total cost Seoul pays to the U.S. for troops stationed in South Korea is somewhere around 1-point-2-5 billion U.S. dollars, far below the 5-billion that was announced by Trump in a Cabinet meeting on February 12th.
The report also corrected Trump's claims that South Korea's contribution had increased by 50 percent. The South Korean contribution actually increased by 8-point-2 percent.
And the false numbers go beyond the defense costs as the report also mentioned that Trump, in a CBS interview earlier this month, inflated the numbers of people serving in South Korea by some 12-thousand service members.