Trump blasts Sth Korea hours before summit with leader
US President Donald Trump criticized South Korea as a two -year alliance test with the new President Lee Jae Myung, with defense expenditures and trade tests, just a few hours before a summit.
The leaders were preparing for their first summits on Trump on social media without providing evidence, “they look like a liquidation or revolution in South Korea” and “We can’t have it and we can’t do business there.”
The explanations gave a dark mood that there were high -betting talks for Lee.
Conservative predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol began to work in June after an election called after it was removed for attempt to impose martial law in December.
The South Korean economy is largely relying on the US, Washington welcomes its security with unity and nuclear deterrence.
Lee wants to draw a balanced cooperation with the US while avoiding antagonizing China, South Korea’s best trading partner.
Trump did not explain the reasons for his complaint.
However, Korea’s far -right movement, especially on charges of provoking the uprising, were aligned with Evangelical Christians and supporters of Yoon.
These Yoon supporters see former presidents as communist persecution and corrected the allegations of tampering in the vote that brought Lee to power in June.
South Korea presidential office told local media that they have examined the issue.
The White House did not immediately answer the questions sent by E -mail about Trump’s shipment.
South Korea has long been in Trump’s targeted criticism of Trump, called a “money machine” that has benefited from American military protection.
“Regardless of how this special incident played, Trump showed how trusted and capricious he was for the Allies,” Hankuk University Professor Mason Richey said. He said.
The two countries have lower negotiations on trade, nuclear energy and military expenditures.
Many senior officials, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, ran to Washington at the weekend to solve the latest details.
According to a White House official, Trump planned to argue, “North Korea, defense stance, trade barriers, maritime security, American ship building, energy dominance and more”.
Analysts said that Lee’s goal of the meeting was to remove some of the most prickly problems, to leave a good impression, to connect with Trump personally and to avoid unpleasant surprises.
As a part of the summit preparations, Lee told journalists that he had read the President of the President’s 1987 memory of the President during his flight to Washington.
Under heavy pressure from the Trump administration, South Korean negotiators provided a last -minute agreement to avoid the hardest of the new US tariffs last month, but they should still withdraw the details of billions of dollars in the promised investments.
“There are many important issues in the field of security, Lee said Lee’s biggest policy assistant Kim Yong-Beom last week.
“Our position is that trade is already concluded last time. We hope that special application plans for trade will never be included in the summit or at least should be kept simple if discussed.”
Lee, who came to Washington on Sunday, will emphasize some of South Korea’s expected investments when he visits a shipyard in Philadelphia, owned by the Hanwha group after the summit.
Cooperation to assist the US shipbuilding sector is part of the wide tariff agreement between countries.
Trump is expected to put pressure on Lee to spend more defenses, including billions of dollars more, including billions of dollars in the maintenance of 28,500 American soldiers in South Korea.
