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Just as the United States left Afghanistan after 20 years, when there was talk of whether other allies could withdraw at any time, the White House pinned South Korea and Europe and drew a line that there would be no reduction in troops. As a result, President Biden's approval ratings fell to their lowest since taking office.



This news was delivered by Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung from Washington.



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White House Foreign and Security Command, who went directly to the briefing, was sweating profusely to deliver the message that the US military would not be left out of other allies.



In particular, he emphasized that Korea and Europe are different from Afghanistan, where civil war is taking place.



[Jake Sullivan / National Security Adviser at the White House: The president has said several times that he has no intention of reducing US troops in Korea or Europe, which have been stationed for a long time, not where there is a civil war.]



Then, even if China invades Taiwan, it would be a civil war There was a question about how to explain the US intervention, but the White House did not give a cool answer.



[Jake Sullivan/White House National Security Adviser: A different context, a fundamentally different question for Taiwan.]



Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state during the George W. Bush administration, wrote in a Washington Post article that America's longest war is the cease-fire Korean War. He pointed out that 28,000 US troops in Korea are still stationed in Korea, contributing to stability on the Korean Peninsula.



It took more time like Korea, but it was hastily withdrawn from Afghanistan.



Biden's approval rating fell to 46%, the lowest since he took office.



President Biden is facing the biggest political crisis since his inauguration with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left a deep scar on the pride of the US military as the world's strongest.



(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)  



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