U.S. Intelligence Sharing With South Korea May Be Impacted By Use of Huawei Equipment
This is a good point, I wonder how infiltrated South Korea’s military is by compromised Huawei hardware?:
Washington may refrain from sharing sensitive intelligence with South Korea unless it stops using telecom equipment from the Chinese communications giant Huawei, according to the U.S. State Department on Thursday.
The statement came in response to the JoongAng Ilbo’s question to the State Department on comments made by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on a radio show on Wednesday. Pompeo told conservative pundit Mark Levin on the show that the level of alertness shown by Washington’s allies in Asia to the national security risk presented by China “varies.”
When the JoongAng Ilbo asked whether Pompeo’s remarks reflected the U.S. government’s official stance that it wants Seoul to stop buying communications equipment from Huawei, a State Department spokesperson answered through a written response that the United States would have to review whether to share sensitive information with an allied country if that country’s communications network included equipment obtained from an untrusted vendor.
Joong Ang Ilbo
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It is a pleasure to see an American administration not being a complete cuck on every level… from leveraging economic advantage to protecting strategic industries.
It is hard to respect those who are against Trump for vague reasons that don’t seem to have any straight answers while overlooking his actual agenda designed to protect the American quality of life and keep it above those who embrace the failed aspects of forced globalization designed to tear down the successful more than build up the failed.
Given how lightly the two previous Presidents (Shrubby and Buy-a-broom) seemed to take Cybersecurity, this is indeed welcome!
Why in the world does a country with Samsung and LG buy anything electronic from its known enemy China? F**king commie moon.
“Why in the world does a country with Samsung and LG buy anything electronic from its known enemy China? F**king commie moon.”
Spoken like a man who has never actually used and IPtime router.
CH, just saying they shouldn’t have to go to China for anything. If Korea has a specific need / requirement ask one of the Korean companies to build it. Enough trouble in Korea with imported contaminated Kimichi and counterfeit cigarettes from Red China, why import crap, spyware ridden electronics from them too?
Ha! I was being funny… as Korean routers suck… hence why they might buy IT infrastructure from Huawei
But I agree with you completely.
Korea should make it a national priority to domestically produce anything they buy from Huawei.
Apart from security and control, it can be exported to fill the gap left by boycotts of shifty Chinese tech products.
This could be a big win for Korea.