South Korean Ruling Party Leader Surprised President Trump Asked To Move Korean Factories to the US
I don’t see what is so surprising about President Trump’s comment, it is no secret that he has been pushing to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States:
While circling the sky near the inter-Korean border last week, U.S. President Donald Trump posed a question that later took the leader of South Korea’s ruling party by surprise.
According to Choo Mi-ae of the Democratic Party, Trump was on his Marine One helicopter to the heavily fortified demilitarized zone when he turned to White House chief economic director Gary Cohn and said: “I just saw something amazing. There are so many factories. Can’t they be built in the U.S.?”
The trip to the DMZ was later canceled due to fog and Trump had to turn back to Seoul to continue his two-day state visit. The trip was watched closely because Trump had threatened to use military options against North Korea and engaged in a war of words with the regime over its nuclear and missile programs.
“I think President Trump understood, while he was in the air for 30 minutes, that 25 million people were living in the area below him and that they would be wiped out in the event of war,” Choo said in a meeting with reporters in New York. “But I was so surprised when Director Cohn told me this story. Wasn’t (Trump) essentially saying we should build our auto parts factories in the U.S., too?” [Yonhap]
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WTF is wrong with people?
Have American politicians been bought off by foreign lobbiests, anti-American globalists, and multinational corporatists for so long that they are in denial over the intentions of Trump and uncomprehending of the meaning of America First?
I have love for both Korea and America so I don’t want to see economic conflict… especially where my best interests lie in Korea coming out ahead.
But I want to see intelligent economic leadership in Korea… and not taking Trump seriously just because every other past president and trade negotiator have been bought out by non-American interests so the advantage was easy to come by… is not intelligent economic leadership.
It is a new paradigm and Korea must adjust accordingly instead of whining over the failure of their wishful thinking.
Bonus Thought: Attacking North Korea and allowing an attack on South Korean infrastructure and manufacturing would require American imports and reduce Korean exports for some time. Lotta short-term birds could be killed with that stone.
The idea that 25 Million Koreans would be “wiped out” in the event of any war is defeatist at best and possibly a line borrowed from Choo’s masters in Pyongyang.