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SEOUL, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- South Korea's parliament Friday decided to cut its troop levels in Iraq by almost one third.
The National Assembly, the single chamber of the South Korean legislature, passed a bill to cut the nation's military deployment in Iraq from 3,200 to 2,300 by 110 votes to 31.
The decision is a blow to Bush administration policies in maintaining the so-called Coalition of the Willing in Iraq, as South Korea's military contingent in Iraq is the third-largest there after the United States and Britain.
The National Assembly, however, also voted to maintain the reduced troop force in Iraq's northern Arbil province for another year.
Ahn Young-keun, a member of the ruling Uri Party, told the assembly: "We believe the deployment will contribute to peace and reconstruction of Iraq, stability in the Middle East and to reaffirming the South Korea-US alliance."
South Korea has a large army of 690,000 men, but it is concentrated on home defense against neighboring North Korea, which has an even bigger one-million-strong conscript force.
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