The Pentagon said in an unclassified national defense strategy document titled "Restoring peace through strength for a new golden age of America" on Friday that it plans to shift more of the responsibility of deterring North Korea to South Korea. (Vladimir Smirnov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
The new policy plan on North Korea followed similar strategies for other parts of the world, with the wide-ranging document adding that the department will "no longer be distracted by interventionism, endless wars, regime change, and nation building. Instead, we will put our people’s practical concrete interests first."
The document clarified the policy doesn’t mean "isolationism," but rather a "strategic approach to the threats our nation faces."
Further down it added, "We will insist our allies and partners do their part and lend them a helping hand when they step up."
The Pentagon document said it would prioritize threats from China while emphasizing burden-sharing by allies in other areas of the world. (Sheng Jiapeng/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
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On Russia, it said the country "will remain a persistent but manageable threat to NATO’s eastern members for the foreseeable future," and on Iran, it stated that President Donald Trump has made it clear that Iran won’t be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.
This year, South Korea raised its military budget by 7.5% while around 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed there in defense of North Korea.
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