Trump Administration Looking for Defense and Trade Deal with South Korea
I tend to agree that it is likely not good for U.S. creditability to try and renegotiate a deal signed by the prior Biden administration:
The Trump administration will face credibility issues if it attempts, following the imposition of a 10% tariff on South Korea, to renegotiate the cost of stationing U.S. troops there, according to policy experts. President Donald Trump proposed a streamlined, “one-stop shopping” deal on defense and trade after a 30-minute call on April 8 with acting South Korean President Han Duck-soo, according to a Truth Social post from Trump that day.
But any attempt to renegotiate the defense spending agreement reached in November is premature until South Korea elects a permanent replacement for former President Yoon Suk Yeol in June, said Hwang Jihwan, a University of Seoul professor of international relations, by phone Friday. Yoon, impeached in December over his failed attempt to impose martial law, was formally removed from office on April 4 by the South Korean Constitutional Court.
You can read more at the link, but I don’t see how the ROK can agree to any significant deal until after the next president is innaugurated in June.
“I tend to agree that it is likely not good for U.S. creditability to try and renegotiate a deal signed by the prior Biden administration”
Trump should give this bogus agreement a cleverly insulting nickname, make fun of Korea, and threaten to take Dokdo.
Why would that be?
Korea was deathly afraid Trump would get elected and renegotiate a better deal for America.
So Korea renegotiate the SMA a full 20 months before it was due. This was wise and foreward thinking by the Yoon administration which, despite the yipping of the retards, was not actually planning to give Korea away.
No fault to Korea here.
But someone, or many someones in the Biden administration went along with this. A conscious decision was made to sabotage some potential long-term benefits to America for no discernable gain.
And that starts looking rather traitorous or corrupt.
Trump needs to make a big show of intentionally dishonoring shady agreements to send a message to the world that gaming the American system is unacceptable as he demands an additional 10% for a FAFO tax.
Why do never get a followup on these things?
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/13/politics/brothel-ring-court-appearance/index.html