Bolton’s Book Claims Trump Threatened to Pull Out USFK from South Korea and Called Kim Jong-un a “Psycho”
Of all the excerpts given to the media there is hardly anything new he is disclosing because it has been widely reported President Trump has threatened to pull out USFK if South Korea does pay more for US-ROK cost sharing:
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to pull American troops from South Korea if Seoul did not pay US$5 billion under a defense cost-sharing deal, his former National Security Adviser John Bolton said in his memoir.
In “The Room Where It Happened,” set to be published Tuesday, Bolton recalled an Afghanistan-related meeting that took place last August ahead of the start of Special Measures Agreement negotiations between South Korea and the United States.
“Get out of there if we don’t get the five billion-dollar deal (for South Korean support of U.S. bases),” Trump was quoted as saying. “We lose $38 billion in trade in Korea. Let’s get out.”
Trump’s initial demand for $5 billion has been widely reported as the two countries remain deadlocked over how much Seoul should pay for the upkeep of 28,500 American troops stationed on the peninsula.
Yonhap
Here is something new that hasn’t been heard before, that President Trump allegedly call Kim Jong-un a “psycho”:
At the meeting, Trump also called the “war games” with South Korea a “big mistake,” referring to the allies’ combined military exercises.
“You shouldn’t have let them go on,” Bolton quoted Trump as telling him. “I’m trying to make peace with a psycho,” he added of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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Well, we should pull USFK out of South Korea. If people in the region want to keep the peace themselves, I say let ’em. It’s the only way to train them to stop hating each other. Our presence gives them an excuse to (1) remain antagonistic toward each other and (2) blame a Western power for their own internal problems. If the little, noisy dog and the big, mean dog on opposite sides of the fence want to learn to get along, just remove the fence and see what happens. I predict great strife and suffering, followed by quiet equilibrium as the blood dries.
Well Kevin stole my thoughts. Let them fight it out. Have many great Korean friends, but as a society their brains have been replaced with pickled cabbage.
It’s one thing to say, “let’s get out because that’s going to be good for everyone involved”, which is OK. But to say “let’s get out so that these dumb pickled cabbage heads can destroy themselves and kill each other off”… well… talk about hatred. So much hate.
>Of all the excerpts given to the media there is hardly anything new he is disclosing
Yes, nothing new… something that we all knew all along that Trump was pulling the alleged $5 billion cost out of his behind, and Bolton confirmed it.
>“We lose $38 billion in trade in Korea. Let’s get out.”
LOL. The victim complex numbers get bigger everyday in Trumpistan.
Seems like the boy from Beijing is solely interested in racism, even if he needs to gin it up by himself…
Pull out? Doesn’t sound manly to me.