Is the United States preparing to withdraw, downsize, or reconfigure its military force presence on the Korean Peninsula?

According to a May 3 report in the New York Times, President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to study options for such a contingency. In any other administration, these types of commands would not at all be out of the ordinary; defense planners and strategists, after all, plan and strategize. Indeed, the U.S. military is the finest fighting force in the world, in part because the people who work in the armed forces are constantly updating existing plans and studying different scenarios.