The Pentagon said Friday it is not considering withdrawing thousands of troops from South Korea, calling its alliance with the country “iron clad.”

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Pentagon was mulling the redistribution of some 4,500 U.S. troops to other areas in the Indo-Pacific region, including Guam. The Journal reported the idea was floated as part of an informal policy review on dealing with North Korea.

“Not true,” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post to X on Friday.

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