South Korea says officials ‘were not notified in advance’ of Trump’s scaling back of joint exercises
“And I said, wait, we have 39,000 soldiers over there — guarding you from [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un, your next-door neighbor — and you’re not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran? That’s strange.”Trump’s announcement came just one day before U.S. troops began an annual joint exercise with South Korea called Ulchi Freedom Shield. The mission is aimed at bolstering South Korea’s defenses against possible attacks from North Korea.
- ▪“And I said, wait, we have 39,000 soldiers over there — guarding you from [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un, your next-door neighbor — and you’re not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran?
- ▪That’s strange.”Trump’s announcement came just one day before U.S. troops began an annual joint exercise with South Korea called Ulchi Freedom Shield.
- ▪The mission is aimed at bolstering South Korea’s defenses against possible attacks from North Korea.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Wednesday that officials in his country were not aware of Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military operations between Washington, D.C., and Seoul before the U.S. president announced it on Truth Social.“Neither our government nor U.S. officials knew what President Trump wrote on his Truth Social,” Cho said during a meeting of South Korea’s National Assembly Committee on Foreign Affairs and Unification. Recommended Stories South Korea says officials ‘were not notified in advance’ of Trump’s scaling back of joint exercises Kim Jong Un’s sister ‘completely unaware’ of communications between North Korea and Trump Zelensky’s fired defense minister mounts political challenge by demanding new elections Cho said Trump’s move to scale back the…
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