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South Korea pays for vast US Army base expansion, but Trump wants it to pay more

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea - The new golf course and clubhouse will open next month. Along MacArthur Circle, 23 stone-clad villas reserved for American generals are finished, as are five apartment towers for military families.

Over by an airfield that buzzes day and night with Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters stands the glass-and-brick headquarters for U.S. Forces Korea - the four-star command that transferred here last June from Seoul, an hour's drive north.

Construction is finished on the grenade launcher range, the tank driving course and 41 barracks buildings. The new combat hospital is supposed to be ready by December. And if war ever breaks out with North Korea, there's a rail depot to rush armored vehicles into the fight.

The U.S. military isn't drawing down at this 3,600-acre Army base,

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