South Korea's defence ministry said today that it was to press for a troop deployment to Iraq that would give it the largest military presence in the country after the United States and Britain.
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Seoul already has 600 military medics and engineers in the southern city of Nasiriya, but wants to send 3,000 soldiers to Irbil in the north.