4/28/2017 4 Comments Seoul missile defenseSo in retaliation for some of the things happening recently in North Korea, South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to put in a missile defense system just in case anything gets shot at Seoul. One of the portions of the agreement was that the U.S. would provide the funding for the weapons, if North Korea would provide the land to build upon. Now though, president Trump wants North Korea to pay for it all, and of course North Korea does not like that idea.
Trump sure seems to be hanging on to the idea that he can convince other countries to pay for things he wants by blustering about it. the South Korean government is already taking flak from the local population of Seongju who don't like it being installed there. China was hugely upset that Korea installed the THAAD, and a lot of Chinese boycotted Korean goods. As a result, the Korean economy took a hit (Lotte alone closed 85 of 99 stores in China). Furthermore, there was a group in Korea that didn't want to install it because they didn't want to be so chummy with the US. It was a political and economic risk for Korea to side with the Americans. Seoul retorted that under the Status of Forces Agreement that governs the US military presence in the country, the South would provide the THAAD site and infrastructure while the US would pay to deploy and operate it. SOURCE
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Mariel Calande
5/14/2017 01:03:04 pm
It's really not a big surprise to me that Trump would change his initial promise to Korea about who pays for what. Like Trump insisting that Mexico pay for the wall, Trump thinks that trying to coerce other countries into paying for large scale projects will work. It's a shame that this time the project actually was meant to help another country in case of an attack.
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Samuel
5/17/2017 09:31:29 pm
It seems ridiculous that Trump expects others to pay for promises that he's struggling to keep. It's almost like all of his business knowledge comes out of the first 20 pages of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I can sympathize with the locals who are upset that they're having missiles installed close to home.
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Shaikh Sultani
5/18/2017 11:29:49 pm
Why am I not surprised that Trump wants a nation to pay for something that negatively impacts them. What makes him think that he can convince these nations to do something like that. Who would want missiles so close to their home.
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Cammron Keehley
5/23/2017 09:37:05 pm
Hey Martin,
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