Article: S. Korea sends smaller number of troops to Iraq for drawdown.

SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- A ceremony was held here Wednesday to see off hundreds of South Korean troops replacing a larger number of soldiers in Iraq as part of Seoul's drive to scale down its military presence in the Middle Eastern nation.Gen. Park Heung-ryul, the Army chief of staff, a number of other military officials and families of the soldiers attended the ceremony at the Special Forces Academy in Gwangju, just south of Seoul. "A total of 197 soldiers will leave for Iraq on Thursday, while more than 400 will return home," a Defense Ministry official said.The ...

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