South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told NBC News that the recent leak of Pentagon documents that exposed US spying on Seoul would not impact ties between the two nations.
“I believe that this matter is no reason to shake the ironclad trust that supports the US-South Korea alliance because it is based on shared values like freedom,” Yoon said.
The leaked documents enraged South Korea’s opposition, but Yoon’s government has downplayed the spying as it seeks to strengthen the US-South Korean military alliance. Yoon arrived in the US on Monday and is due to hold a summit with President Biden on Wednesday and will address Congress on Thursday.
The documents detailed a conversation between two South Korean officials about concerns that selling ammunition to the US that might end up in Ukraine could violate Seoul’s long-standing policy of not sending arms into conflict zones.
One possible workaround they discussed was selling ammunition to Poland with an agreement that Warsaw would be the end user but knowing the ammo would eventually end up in Ukraine. Since the leaks came out, South Korea has confirmed it plans to go ahead with a weapons sale to Warsaw.
Yoon’s visit to Washington comes amid soaring tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Washington and Seoul have resumed massive war games that were paused for years, which have involved the deployment of US bombers and other assets to South Korea. The war games have provoked more North Korean missile tests, and there’s no end in sight to the tensions as both sides continue tit-for-tat escalations.
Yoon is expected to seek more guarantees from Biden when it comes to protection under the US nuclear umbrella. He has previously suggested the US should redeploy nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula and also warned Seoul could develop its own, making him the first South Korean leader to threaten to acquire nukes since 1991.
Biden and Yoon will also discuss China and Taiwan as the US wants to enlist South Korea in its campaign against Beijing. Yoon recently angered Beijing by calling Taiwan a “global issue.”
Spying on us is, “…no reason to shake the ironclad trust…” because this “…is based on shared values like freedom…” That’s not the most incredible and disgusting issue here. It is how the US can find such slimy despicable demon serpents to submit their own country’s future totally to the will of the Neocons while verbalizing those words. Where are they plucking these demons from? Satan’s hellfire garden? Do you ever wonder?! (Sarcasm alert)
South Korea already has around $5.8 Billion in arms contracts https://www.irinsider.org/business-and-technology/south-korea-emerges-as-a-major-arms-supplier-to-poland with Poland for this year so it’s not as if an ammo sale that they know will end up in Ukraine is unusual given just how many arms and ammo Poland ships to Ukraine.
This discussion is might be more like one of a recognition/explanation of how they do these transfers then a discussion of how they “might” do them which might be why the SoKo’s aren’t sweating over the leak.
Ukraine may regret Poland’s “help” though….
Poland has designs on what is left of Ukraine after the war according to some who have been discussing Poland’s involvement.
Supposedly some in Poland want a reprisal of the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth that had the western part of Ukraine; the eastern part was Russia’s.
Kind of similar of where Boris is today.
I really do not trust Poland.
The continuing US war on North Korea is the gift that keeps on giving for the MIC, with South Korea Japan and Australia being good little puppies for the US. It’s a shame that Trump’s Singapore Agreement was Dead on Arrival, it would have brought peace but who wants that.
“I believe that this matter is no reason to shake the ironclad trust that supports the US-South Korea alliance because it is based on shared values like freedom,” Yoon said.
Then you have to wonder what the f*ck would. Is this guy really that dense?
NO. Actually, he is quite smart. He knows from whom all blessing flow (yeah, I know it is from a religious chant).
S. Korea appears to be as ‘flexible’ with abiding by their own laws as Washington. No surprise John “Torture Memo” Yoo is Korean & Yale Law.
Yoon talks about freedom? How does he define freedom? As I see it these are the “freedoms”:
– US is spying on S Korea
– US has at least on military base with 25,000 troops some say to defend them from the North, others say to keep S Korea in check
– It will have to send ammo to Ukraine thru whatever means they can think of, which will prompt the Russians to provide advanced weapons to the North
– they are being forced to start a chip war with China
– they are being dragged into a war by provoking the North. A nuclear war will eliminate the Korean race.
Meanwhile N Korea does as they please.Where