A legislator of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) says Washington's plan to reduce its troops in South Korea could be renegotiable after the U.S. presidential elections in November.

Representative Park Jin made the remarks Thursday in a meeting with Korean correspondents in New York after holding discussions with Republican congressmen and officials of a U.S. think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations.

Park said that during talks with top Republican officials, he had stressed that now is not the time to significantly cut the number of American troops on the Korean Peninsula, citing North Korea's nuclear threat. Park said that the Republican officials had expressed understanding towards his comments.

Park is in New York to attend the meeting of the International Democrat Union and the U.S. Republican Party convention.