Trump’s move to gut South Korea alliance is ‘inane, haphazard decision’, lawmakers say
by Joseph Gedeon in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#77R78)
US president's abrupt order to scale back joint exercises with Seoul is meant to flatter' North Korea's dictator, top Democrat says
Donald Trump's move to gut Washington's 73-year-old military alliance with Seoul has been called inane" and shortsighted" as lawmakers warned it risked strengthening Russia's hand in Ukraine.
The US president abruptly ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea just days after North Korea test-fired ballistic missiles, justifying the decision by citing his very good relationship" with Kim Jong-Un, the nuclear-armed dictator such exercises exist to deter.
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