S. Korea gets more legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops: official
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. military in South Korea agreed Wednesday to give more legal jurisdiction to Seoul authorities over serious crimes involving U.S. troops before they are charged, officials said.
The agreement, reached after a regular meeting earlier in the day over the bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that governs the legal status of U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, came nearly nine months after two American soldiers were accused of raping teenage girls in South Korea in separate incidents.
