IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 46 
Expressing the sense of Congress that all United States Armed Forces should 
be withdrawn from South Korea and the United States should end 
its defense guarantee of South Korea. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 13, 2003 
Mr. PAUL submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that all United States 
Armed Forces should be withdrawn from South Korea 
and the United States should end its defense guarantee 
of South Korea. 
Whereas United States participation in the United Nations 
action in Korea from 1950 to 1953 cost 54,246 United 
States lives and more than $50,000,000,000; 
Whereas 60 years later the United States still maintains 
37,000 troops in South Korea, to be used as a tripwire 
in case of invasion from the North; 
Whereas South Korea maintains a standing army of approxi-
mately 700,000 persons; 
Whereas South Korea’s gross domestic product is more than 
40 times that of North Korea and North Korea’s gross 
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domestic product has fallen to half of what it was in 
1990; 
Whereas the United States spends $3,000,000,000 directly 
per year to maintain its military presence in South Korea 
and as much as $12,000,000,000 per year indirectly, and 
in the 60 years since the end to hostilities in the Korean 
War, the United States has granted South Korea ap-
proximately $14,500,000,000 in aid; 
Whereas South Korea’s newly-elected president, Roh Moo- 
huyn, has endorsed the ‘‘Sunshine Policy’’ of rapproche-
ment with North Korea and has suggested that South 
Korea’s role should be that of mediator between North 
Korea and the United States; 
Whereas peace between North and South Korea is in both 
countries’ interest as well as in the interest of the region; 
Whereas North and South Korea have shown the willingness 
to negotiate bilaterally their differences in the absence of 
United States participation; 
Whereas the presence of United States troops in South Korea 
has increased tension between the United States and 
South Korea, between the United States and North 
Korea, and between North and South Korea; 
Whereas public sentiment in South Korea is increasingly op-
posed to the United States troop presence, Americans 
have been physically attacked in South Korea, and there-
fore the United States military presence in South Korea 
is having an increasingly destabilizing effect; and 
Whereas the United States military presence in South Korea 
is an expensive and outdated relic of the Cold War and 
is no longer in the United States’ national interest: Now, 
therefore, be it 
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This concurrent resolution may be cited as the 
‘‘United States-Korea Normalization Resolution of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) all United States Armed Forces should be 
withdrawn from South Korea; and 
(2) the United States should end its defense 
guarantee of South Korea. 
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