In new comments on Wednesday, President Trump has demanded that South Korea pay “substantially more” to the US for defending them from
North Korea. If that sounds familiar, it’s because President Trump has
been repeatedly making that argument since his election.
Indeed, as Trump himself pointed out of Twitter, South Korea agreed last
year to a substantial increase in what it pays to the US, raising it to
$990,000,000 per year. Though Trump credited himself for getting this
much money, he also demanded even more.
That’s likely to be a tough sell, since South Korea had already agreed
to an increase last year and then had to start negotiations all over
when Trump got involved and started demanding dramatically more.
Moreover, these are meant to be multi-year agreements, and last year
just happened to be when it was up for re-negotiation. It’s not intended
to be up for review every single year, and certainly isn’t intended as
an annual opportunity for the US to push for more money.
The Don just wants to extort a little more protection money. MAGA.
Wars,,I am all for that! If we are not getting out I surely don’t want my tax money spent “protecting” S. Korea.
And you think your tax burden is going to be less if Trump squeezes a little more out of South Korea? We should leave. Period.
He learned from Meyer Lansky and Roy Cohn.
USA OUT of S. Korea, and time for a peace treaty between all the parties. Prez. Trump has talked enough, time for action,,the clock is ticking!!!
We are mercenaries who make an otherwise nonexistent threat worse. The US cannot effectively protect S Korea if the US does manage to provoke an all-out war with N Korea. Only peace can protect the S Koreans, they should stop all payments and demand all US personnel leave.
Time for the Koreas to ink a mutual defense pact….then we will see how much the US thinks they should spend.