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Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, commander of the III Marine Expeditionary Force of the United States, looks across the inter-Korean sea border at the North Korean side, along with Lt. Gen. Jun Jin-goo, commander of South Korea’s Marine Corps, during their visit to Maldo, an island near the Northern Limit Line, Friday. Nicholson’s units, based in Japan, would be among the first offshore troops to augment the 28,500-strong U.S. Forces Korea in case of an emergency situation here. / Yonhap