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- 关键五角大楼文件称目标是将更多责任转移给韩国
- 驻韩美军人数为28,500人
- 五角大楼优先任务是本土防御
1月23日（路透社）- 根据周五发布的一份政策文件，五角大楼预计在威慑朝鲜方面的角色将”更有限”，韩国将承担主要责任，这一举措可能导致驻朝鲜半岛美军减少。
韩国部署了约28,500名美军，共同防御朝鲜的军事威胁，首尔今年国防预算增加了7.5%。
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“韩国有能力在美军关键但更有限的支持下，承担起威慑朝鲜的主要责任，”五角大楼在指导其政策的25页《国防战略》文件中表示。
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“责任平衡的这一转变符合美国更新驻朝鲜半岛美军部署态势的利益。”
特朗普转向聚焦美国本土防御
近年来，美国官员表示希望使驻韩美军更灵活，以应对更广泛的威胁，例如保卫台湾和遏制中国日益增长的军事影响力。
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韩国虽然反对美军角色转变，但过去20年已着力提升国防能力，目标是能够承担美韩联合部队的战时指挥权。韩国拥有45万军队。
韩国国防部称，驻韩美军是”联盟的核心”，它威慑了朝鲜的侵略行为，确保了半岛和地区的和平。
“我们将与美国密切合作，继续朝这个方向发展，”该部门表示。
朝鲜常规批评美国在韩驻军和联合演习——盟友称其为防御性演习——称这是华盛顿霸权野心驱动下针对朝鲜的入侵预演。
五角大楼首席政策官员埃尔布里奇·科尔比下周将前往亚洲，预计会访问韩国，一位美国官员表示。
这份新政府发布的全面文件称，五角大楼的首要任务是保卫本土。在印太地区，文件称五角大楼正致力于确保中国无法主导美国或美国盟友。
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“这不需要政权更迭或其他生存斗争。相反，一种体面的和平是可能的，这种和平对美国人有利，但中国也能接受并在其下生活，”文件未提及台湾。
中国称台湾是中美关系中最重要、最敏感的问题，声称民主治理的台湾是其领土一部分，不排除使用武力收复该岛。台湾拒绝北京的主权主张，称只有台湾人民能决定未来。
中国国防部多次表示，解决”台湾问题”是中国内政。
特朗普向伊朗派遣”舰队”，施压乌克兰
台湾国家安全委员会秘书长吴钊燮表示，美国战略文件设定了防止中国等国家主导印太地区，并在所谓第一岛链建立强大”拒止防御”的目标，第一岛链是从日本经台湾到菲律宾的弧形地带。
“台湾是该地区的关键参与者，将继续投资国防以威慑侵略并实现和平，”吴在X平台上发帖称。
该文件基于总统唐纳德·特朗普去年发布的《国家安全战略》，该战略称美国将重新确立在西半球的主导地位，在印太地区加强军事力量，并可能重新评估与欧洲的关系。
特朗普周四表示，美国正派遣一支”舰队”前往伊朗，但希望不必使用它，同时他再次警告德黑兰不要杀害抗议者或重启核计划。向中东的部署扩大了特朗普的选择空间，既可在紧张时刻更好地保卫美军，也可在6月打击伊朗核设施后采取额外军事行动。
文件称，尽管伊朗最近几个月遭受挫折，但仍在重建军事力量，德黑兰未排除”再次尝试获取核武器”的可能性。即使美军前往该地区，以色列仍是”模范盟友”，可能会被进一步授权自卫。美国与以色列在加沙战争问题上关系时而紧张。
特朗普去年的《国家安全战略》引发欧洲人强烈不满，该战略称欧洲面临”文明消亡”，可能有一天失去作为可靠美国盟友的地位。
特朗普政府正在向乌克兰施压，要求其就俄罗斯2022年2月全面入侵引发的战争达成和平协议，莫斯科要求基辅割让整个东部工业区顿巴斯才会停火。
五角大楼战略文件对欧洲盟友更为审慎，称尽管美国将继续参与欧洲事务，但会优先考虑本土防御和遏制中国。
文件称，俄罗斯将继续是北约东部成员国”持续但可控”的威胁，五角大楼将为特朗普提供”确保美国军事和商业进入全球关键地区”的选项，包括格陵兰岛。
特朗普本周表示，他已通过与北约达成的协议，获得了格陵兰岛永久的完全美国使用权，北约负责人称盟友必须加强北极安全承诺以抵御俄罗斯和中国的威胁。
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Pentagon foresees ‘more limited’ role in deterring North Korea
January 24, 2026 9:37 AM UTC / Reuters
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
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- Key Pentagon document says aim is to shift more responsibility to South Korea
- 28,500 US troops based in South Korea
- Priority for Pentagon is homeland defense
Jan 23 (Reuters) – The Pentagon foresees a “more limited” role in deterring North Korea, with South Korea taking primary responsibility, according to a policy document released on Friday, a move that could lead to a reduction of U.S. forces on the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea hosts about 28,500 U.S. troops in combined defense against North Korea’s military threat, and Seoul has raised its defense budget by 7.5% for this year.
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“South Korea is capable of taking primary responsibility for deterring North Korea with critical but more limited U.S. support,” the Pentagon said in the 25-page National Defense Strategy document that guides its policies.
“This shift in the balance of responsibility is consistent with America’s interest in updating U.S. force posture on the Korean Peninsula.”
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In recent years, U.S. officials have signaled a desire to make U.S. forces in South Korea more flexible, to potentially operate outside the Korean Peninsula in response to a broader range of threats, such as in defending Taiwan and checking China’s growing military reach.
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South Korea has resisted the idea of shifting the role of U.S. troops but has worked to grow its defense capabilities in the past 20 years, with the goal of being able to take on the wartime command of combined U.S. and South Korean forces. South Korea has 450,000 troops.
Its Defense Ministry said the U.S. military based in the country is the “core” of the alliance that has deterred North Korean aggression and ensured peace on the peninsula and the region.
“We will be cooperating closely with the U.S. to continue developing it in that direction,” it said.
North Korea routinely criticizes the U.S. military presence in South Korea and joint drills – which the allies say are defensive – as dress rehearsals for invasion against it driven by what it calls Washington’s hegemonic zeal.
The Pentagon’s top policy official, Elbridge Colby, is due to travel to Asia next week and is expected to visit South Korea, a U.S. official said.
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The wide-ranging document, which each new administration publishes, said the Pentagon’s priority was defending the homeland. In the Indo-Pacific region, the document said, the Pentagon was focused on ensuring that China could not dominate the United States or U.S. allies.
“This does not require regime change or some other existential struggle. Rather, a decent peace, on terms favorable to Americans but that China can also accept and live under, is possible,” the document said, without mentioning Taiwan by name.
China, which describes Taiwan as the most important and sensitive topic in its relations with the United States, claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has not ruled out the use of force to take control of the island. Taiwan rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims and says only the people of Taiwan can decide their future.
China’s defense ministry has repeatedly said that resolving “the Taiwan question” was a Chinese matter.
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Joseph Wu, secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council, said the U.S. strategy document sets the goal of preventing countries like China from dominating the Indo-Pacific and erecting strong “denial defense” along the so-called first island chain, an arc that stretches from Japan through Taiwan and the Philippines.
“Taiwan is a key player in the region & will continue to invest in defense to deter aggression & achieve peace,” Wu posted on X.
The document is based on President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy, published last year, which said the United States will reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific and possibly reassess its relationship with Europe.
Trump said on Thursday the U.S. had an “armada” heading toward Iran but that he hoped he would not have to use it, as he renewed warnings to Tehran against killing protesters or restarting its nuclear program. The deployments to the Middle East expand the options available to Trump, both to better defend U.S. forces in the region at a moment of high tension and to take any additional military action after striking Iranian nuclear sites in June. The Pentagon document says that while Iran has suffered setbacks in recent months, it is aiming to rebuild its military, with Tehran leaving open the possibility that it could “try again to obtain a nuclear weapon.” Even with U.S. troops heading to the region, the document says, Israel is a “model ally” and could be further empowered to defend itself. The United States has had a sometimes strained relationship with Israel over its war in Gaza.
Trump’s National Security Strategy from last year drew an outcry from Europeans after it said that Europe faced “civilizational erasure” and might one day lose its status as a reliable U.S. ally.
The Trump administration is putting pressure on Ukraine to reach a peace deal in the war triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, with Moscow demanding Kyiv cede its entire eastern industrial area of Donbas before it stops fighting.
The Pentagon’s strategy document is more measured on European allies, saying that while the United States will remain engaged in Europe, it will prioritize defending the United States and deterring China.
It says Russia will remain a “persistent but manageable” threat for NATO’s eastern members and that the Pentagon will provide Trump with options to “guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key terrain” in different parts of the world, including Greenland.
Trump said this week he had secured total and permanent U.S. access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have to step up their commitment to Arctic security to ward off threats from Russia and China.
Reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart, additional reporting by Joyce Lee in Seoul and Ben Blanchard in Taipei; Editing by Chris Reese, Kate Mayberry and Tom Hogue
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