A Very Stable Genius: on Homeland Security

Donald Trump: South Korea should pay for $10B missile defense system

Trump's first complaint was to repeat what he had vented about to his national security advisor months earlier: South Korea should pay for a $10 billion missile defense system that the United States built for it. The system was built to shoot down any short and medium range missiles from North Korea to South Korea and American troops stationed there. But Trump argued that South Koreans should pay for it, proposing that the administration pull US troops out of the region or bill the South Koreans for their protection.

"We should charge them rent," Trump said of South Korea. We should make them pay for our soldiers. We should make the money off everything." Trump said U.S. troops and defense systems in South Korea did not make Americans safer. He said he could eliminate the nuclear threat on the peninsula simply by striking a deal with North Korean dictator Kim Jun Un. " This is all about leader versus leader. Man versus man. Kim versus me, he said."

Source: A Very Stable Genius, by P.Rucker & C.Leonnig, p.133-4 Jan 21, 2020

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