Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump met on Monday with South Korean President Lee Jae Jae Myung on social media to do business in the country because of a “cleaning or revolution”.
However, every view of an enemy Oval Office meeting, after Lee had praised Lee, praised the decor and continued to facilitate Trump with Korean peace efforts and even suggest a Trump tower in North Korea.
“We knew each other and got on very well,” said Trump. After Trump had run down the agenda for the summit, he added: “It is a great honor to be with you and congratulate you on your choice. It was a big one, and we are 100%with you.”
The sultry display showed how the leaders of the world make notes from previous meetings between Trump and head of state who have largely selected the path of praise and veneration instead of confronting themselves because they are looking for favorable trade conditions and continued military facilitate from Washington. It was one of the first major foreign policy tests for Lee that took over a country in a state of political turbulence since his former leader Yoon Suk Yeol was displaced from office after the procedure of the war law.
Lee, who was chosen in June, began praising one of Trump’s pet projects: the president’s interior.
“I heard that you recently decorated the Oval Office, and I want to say that it looks very bright and beautiful,” said Lee through an interpreter. “It has the dignity of America and symbolizes the new future and the prosperity of America.”
He noticed that the Dow Jones index has reached record highs (although Lee ensured that the reservation that “he was a little”), and Trump, who asked the mission to get the Nobel Peace Prize to unite the two Koreas and maybe even see the construction of a Trump tower in North Korea, which was accompanied by a round round. Lee also agreed to Trump’s claim that the North Korean leader Kim Jong and had not improved his nuclear skills in recent years if Trump had remained in office.
Lee noticed a “Renaissance,” said Lee, “I think you are the only leader who achieved such success.”
The sound was far from Trump’s confrontative social media contribution on Monday. He later explained that he refers to raids on churches and a US military base of the up-to-date South Korean government that “probably shouldn’t have done”.
“I heard bad things,” said Trump on Monday morning reporters in the Oval Office. “I don’t know if it is true or not. I’ll find out.”
Trump did not identify specific raids. But at the beginning of this month, the South Korean police carried out a raid on a church that is led by a conservative activist pastor, which claims in January, which was connected to a protest in January, which, according to Yonhap News Agency, became violent. A special public prosecutor’s team that examined the allegations of corruption against Yoon’s wife, the former first Lady Kim Keon Hee, also drove through the institutions of the church of association after the accusations that one of her civil servants gave luxury goods.
In the meantime, the Osan Air Base, which is operated together by the USA and South Korea, was the goal of an attack by investigators last month, such as Yoon’s activation of the war law, according to the newspaper Chosun Ilbo. The South Korean officials insisted that the attack was in the areas controlled by Seoul.
When asked about his claims of a reporter in front of Lee, Trump refused to face the South Korean president, and instead said that the two would discuss them later.
“It didn’t sound like South Korea,” said Trump.
Lee said that the special prosecutor was tapped by the country’s National Assembly to examine Yoon’s actions, which Lee said, staged a “self -coup”.
At this point Trump appears: “Is his name accidentally disturbed by Jack Smith?” He referred to the special prosecutor, who led two criminal matters against Trump before the Republican President was re -elected to a second term.
Yoon, who was elected in 2022 at a five-year period, was seen as ideologically with Trump and even resumed Golfing after the US President had been re-elected last November to try to make a bond with him. Lee directed the efforts of the South Korean parliament to lift the war law decree of Yoon and at the same time complain about it. The nation’s constitutional court officially rejected Yoon in April.
The first personal meeting between Trump and Lee could further expand details of a trade agreement in July between the two countries in which Seoul invested hundreds of billions in the United States. The agreement followed the tariffs for South Korean goods at 15% after Trump threatened the interest of 25%.
Seoul has one of the greatest trade surpluses among the allies in Washington in Washington and Indo-Pacific allies, and countries in which the USA have a trade deficit has drawn a special anger from Trump, who wants to eliminate such trade weight weights.
Trump also said on Monday that he would distribute the US rental contract with South Korea, which covers the Osan Air Base and instead receives property in the country.
Before visiting Washington, Lee traveled to his first bilateral visit as President in an extremely symbolic journey for the two nations who organized long -term historical wounds. The summit with the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was interpreted by analysts to show unity and potential leverage, since Japan and South Korea are faced with up-to-date challenges through the Trump administration.
Lee was elected in June and was a former child worker with an arm deformity that rise through the political ranks of South Korea to lead the liberal democratic party and to win the presidency after several attempts.
Lee was faced with an attempted assassination in January 2024 when he stung the neck of a man who said Lee’s autograph and later told the investigators that he intended to kill the politician.
Lee arrived in the USA on Sunday and will leave Tuesday. On Sunday evening he headed around 200 local Korean Americans on Sunday evening on Sunday evening in downtown Washington.
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Associated Press Writer wants to contribute to this report in Washington.
