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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Washington. | AP Photo U.S. ambassador to South Korea rebuts Trump

Without naming Donald Trump, the United States' ambassador to South Korea on Monday ripped into the Republican frontrunner's remarks in a recent New York Times interview in which he suggested that Seoul is not pulling its weight.

"We feel very good about the resource sharing that we and the Republic of Korea do together as an alliance," Amb. Mark Lippert said during a meeting with members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, according to a report from Yonhap News. "It is remarkable."

In an interview with the Times, Trump remarked that he would consider withdrawing U.S. forces from Japan and South Korea if they do not significantly increase their contribution to their own defense, although "not happily." It was the most recent, though not the first time he has referred to the inequity of the U.S.' military relationship with developed countries like Germany, Japan and South Korea.

“South Korea is very rich, great industrial country, and yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do," Trump told The Washington Post on March 21. "We’re constantly sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games — we’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing."

According to Yonhap's account, Lippert referred to South Korea covering 55 percent of non-personnel costs and yearly increases of defense spending between 3 and 5 percent. Roughly 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed on the peninsula, which remains in a state of war following the 1953 truce that ended hostilities between the communist North and the U.S.-backed South.

"You get a sense of the alliances and how much and who contributes what," Lippert said, referring to his time at the Pentagon. "Korea does very well in terms of its contribution."

Both countries renewed their cost-sharing agreement in 2014, with the South Korean government promising to spend $886 million per year for upkeep.