US expects Seoul to 'uphold' alliance standards amid intelligence cooperation concerns: senior official

A senior US official said Friday that Washington expects Seoul to "uphold" the standards of their decadeslong alliance, amid heightened concerns over apparent friction in the countries' intelligence cooperation. "We expect the ROK to uphold the standards of our decadeslong alliance, in particular concerning matters of intelligence and counterintelligence," the senior US administration official told Yonhap News Agency in a written statement, referring to South Korea's official name, the Republic

Source: The Korea Herald