A meeting was held on Tuesday to prepare for the upcoming defense cost sharing negotiations between Seoul and Washington.<br />According to South Korea's foreign ministry, the heads of the previous round of negotiations, Chang Won-sam... and Timothy Betts, held closed door talks in Seoul.<br />They reportedly exchanged views on how to carry out the 11th round of the Special Measures Agreement Consultation and related matters.<br />They won't be involved in the next round of talks,... as new chief negotiators are said to be currently under review.<br />South Korea paid nearly 858-million U.S. dollars in 2019 for its share of stationing the roughly 28-thousand U.S. troops on the peninsula.<br />
