The Latest: US troop levels in SKorea 'are not on the table'
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. and North Korea (all times local):
10:40 a.m.
President Donald Trump says withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea is 'not on the table' as he prepares for a historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Trump says: "Troops are not on the table."
Trump is addressing a report that he had asked the Pentagon to prepare plans for scaling back the U.S. military presence in South Korea, as he has complained that South Korea does not do enough to financially support that commitment. National security adviser John Bolton called that report, in The New York Times, "utter nonsense" in a statement Friday.