S. Korea extends troop deployment in Iraq

The South Korean National Assembly has approved the government's plan to extend its troop deployment in Iraq until the end of 2008.

South Korean soldiers patrol a street in Arbil, Iraq in 2006.  (AFP/File/Safin Hamed)

The motion was submitted by President Roh Moo-hyun's administration in November. South Korea recently withdrew about 600 troops from Iraq, setting the current troop level at 650.

It was the fourth straight year since 2004 for South Korea to extend its troops mandate in Iraq.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei