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This bill — known as the Maintaining Commitment on the Korean Peninsula Act — would direct the Director of National Intelligence to submit a report to Congress on the anticipated impact of altering America’s military posture on the Korean peninsula. The report would include information on the views of Japan, South Korea, and regional allies’ and partners’ governments regarding the significant reduction or complete withdrawal of U.S. forces, or the permanent suspension of exercises.

It would also include assessments of the impact that a significant reduction or complete withdrawal of U.S. forces of permanent suspension of exercises would have on:

The transition of operation control of U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula;
Countering non-North Korean actors in northeast Asia, including in the areas of economics, diplomacy, and defense;
The long-term East Asian security architecture implications; and
The implications for U.S. and allied capabilities to deter and defeat North Korean aggression in cyber, conventional, chemical, and biological warfare.

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