Trump scales back ‘inappropriate and hostile’ US-South Korea military drills
US President Donald Trump has ordered the military to scale back joint drills with South Korea hours before they were due to begin.
The American leader says the exercises are “inappropriate and hostile” toward North Korea.
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in joint military exercises with South Korea,” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile to a country that, as long as Donald J Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful.
“Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the joint military exercises.”
