South Korean President Moon Jae-in criticized former US President Donald Trump’s Korean Peninsula (KP) policy as a side-show that has not been fully successful, “but if it continues to develop on the basis of Trump’s foreign policy, I think Biden has a chance to succeed” in an exclusive interview with US media The New York Times (NYT). In response, Trump was so angry that he issued a statement via email, praising North Korean leader Kim Jong-un while criticizing Moon’s diplomatic negotiating skills.
According to the U.S. media “New York Post” and the French media “AFP”, Trump issued a statement via email on the 23rd of local time in response to Moon’s criticism, “During my most difficult time, I met and also liked North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, who has never respected South Korea’s current president Moon Jae-in!”
Trump offered a rebuttal to Moon’s claim that “for the United States, President Moon Jae-in is weak as a leader and negotiator of a country, except for the military, which makes the United States the wrongdoer.”
In his statement, Trump argued that when he was president of the United States, he successfully blocked attacks from North Korea for South Korea and made great contributions to peace between the two Koreas, and met with Kim Jong-un a total of three times in Singapore, Hanoi, Vietnam, and Panmunjom when he took office, writing an unprecedented new page for diplomatic relations between the United States and North Korea, yet he was always in a stalemate when it came to denuclearization negotiations until his term ended.
In his statement, Trump again complained about the South Korean government’s share of military expenses on U.S. troops in South Korea, criticizing South Korea’s free-rider attitude on defense and security. He stressed that although the U.S. has been treated as an ingrate for decades, South Korea needs to pay billions of dollars more under the military umbrella and services provided by the U.S. “South Korea agreed to pay us billions of dollars in negotiations, yet the Biden administration stopped even asking South Korea for it after taking office.”
In response to Trump’s remarks, a Cheong Wa Dae source said it was not convenient or appropriate to comment on the remarks of a former foreign head of state, but in response to Trump’s accusations about South Korea’s military cost sharing, he also said that South Korea “abides by the principles” in the military cost sharing negotiations between the two sides.
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