South Korea's presidential Blue House has dismissed a New York Times report that says U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to prepare options for drawing down U.S. troops in South Korea... weeks before he's scheduled to hold a landmark meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.<br /> In a text message sent out to the Blue House press corps Friday morning, the South Korean president's senior press secretary Yoon Young-chan said... President Moon's national security adviser Chung Eui-yong, currently in Washington to meet with his U.S. counterparts, had confirmed this report with a key member of the U.S. National Security Council who flatly dismissed it as "groundless."<br /> The U.S. Defense Department also said it has not received any orders to withdraw troops from the Korean Peninsula and is maintaining the same posture in the region.<br />In its May 3rd edition, the New York Times reported that Mr. Trump had ordered such troop reduction on the Korean peninsula citing several "unnamed people briefed on the deliberations." <br />
