Foreign Minister Yun Yeong-gwan, talking at at the French Institute of Internal Relations, said that his government’s position on the dispatch of Korean forces to Iraq remains unchanged despite the recent incidents of international terror. Asked how the attacks in Turkey and other places will influence the sending of troops to Iraq, Yun answered, “The concrete conditions of the dispatch will be decided after taking into account the international political situation, public opinion, and the like,” but “there has been no change in either the government’s decision or its position to send troops to Iraq.”
In other words, troops will be going, but no decision yet on whether those troops will include combat troops.
