South Korea released a report on Sunday that showed the size of its military has decreased by 20% over the past six years. Officials indicated that the major decrease in the South Korean military is due to a major decrease in the population of enlistment-age males caused by the lowest birthrate in the world. The …
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South Korea released a report on Sunday that showed the size of its military has decreased by 20% over the past six years. Officials indicated that the major decrease in the South Korean military is due to a major decrease in the population of enlistment-age males caused by the lowest birthrate in the world.
The report by the South Korean Ministry of National Defense, which was obtained by Reuters, showed that South Korea’s military has decreased from roughly 563,000 active-duty troops in 2019 to roughly 450,000 troops. Reuters reported that the size of the South Korean military has continually decreased since the country had roughly 690,000 troops in the early 2000s.
