South Korea ruling party wants all troops withdrawn from Iraq

South Korea’s ruling party said today that it wouldn’t back government plans to extend the deployment of troops in Iraq for another year without an agreement for the eventual withdrawal of all South Korean forces from the war-torn country.

Earlier, the Uri Party had claimed the government agreed to the full withdrawal. But Noh Woong-rae, a party spokesman, said later that the government “hadn’t accepted or agreed” to their proposal to remove all troops from Iraq by the end of 2007.