ENRILE SAYS U.S. MAY INVOKE TREATY OBLIGATION
RP troops to Korea possible under MDT
By Angie M. Rosales 11/29/2010The government will be compelled to deploy Filipino soldiers in South Korea if the United States invokes the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) in the event that the tension between North Korea and South Korea escalates into a full-blown war, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday.
Enrile, in a radio interview, added the developing situation in the Korean peninsula is also a concern to the country.
North Korea had warned of unpredictable consequences if the US and South Korea go ahead with naval exercises in the Yellow Sea. The drill, nevertheless, started yesterday.
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier and its battle group were planning four days of exercises with South Korea from yesterday as a show of force after Pyongyang stunned the world with artillery strikes on Yeonpyeong Island.
The planned drill has also heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing since China regards the Yellow Sea as its own ancestral waters and has refrained from condemning its communist ally Pyongyang over Tuesday’s attack..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101129hed1.html
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