U.S. in Korea

* Re “North Won’t Deal While U.S. Troops Stay,” Commentary, Aug. 16: We should listen and act on Hwal Woong Lee’s assertion that it is the strong U.S. military presence in South Korea that forms a major barrier to reunification and peace on the Korean peninsula.

U.S. taxpayers have carried this burden too long. If South Korea still needs our soldiers to stop a North Korean invasion through the Seoul corridor they do not deserve our continued support. It is time the 1953 armistice was replaced with a peace treaty and the Forgotten War brought to a final closure.

JACK STITES

U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)

Santa Ana