Trump wants South Korea to defend itself. His overtures to Kim Jong Un could delay that
South Korea has long been a close American ally; since the end of the Korean War the two nations have had a mutual defense treaty primarily designed to protect the South from North Korea.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday said he agreed with Trump’s opinion that South Korea should take responsibility for its own security in the Korean Peninsula, by rapidly increase its defense spending to 3.
Contained within the military exercises is training to give South Korea something it hasn’t had since the Korean War began in 1950: wartime operational control of the combined South Korea-US forces on the peninsula, analysts point out.
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