What The Hell Just Happened Between TRUMP, South Korea and Kim Jong Un!!!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And we just have some breaking news in regarding US
President Donald Trump and North Korea. Trump has just taken
to truth social and announced and this is prior to
these planned joint military exercises that are a very regular
occurrence between South Korea and America. Trump says, and I quote,

(00:24):
based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong hown
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. These exercises are
not only costly, with much of these costs paid for
by the United States of America. In brackets as usual
exclamation mark, but send a signal that is totally inappropriate

(00:47):
and hostile to a country that, as long as Donald J.
Trump has been president, has been unthreatening and respectful. Okay,
He goes on to say, while somewhat un related question
mark in brackets, I recently asked the president of South
Korea if they would like to join us in the

(01:08):
denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said no. Thanks. Now,
we all know those images of Trump meeting with Kim
Jong un from his first term in office, it's no
secret that they have a relationship. And look, let's not

(01:28):
kid ourselves. Kim Jong un is a dictator and then
some he is not a friendly man, you know, He's
not the kind of leader that America should strive to
have a warm and friendly relationship with. But of course
Trump should have relationships with everyone when it is in
the best interest of America. A couple of my thoughts

(01:49):
just off the back of this being announced. He is
right in that North Korea in a very different way,
to say, the Islamic Republic of Iran doesn't pose that
imminent threat. Yes, they've got the capability to destroy nations
essentially with their nuclear program, but they don't appear to

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have the willingness or the desire to They're quite happy
to have what they have and be left alone. And
of course it's not pleasant for their people at times,
and whatever else. Acknowledge all of that, But in regards
to a direct threat to America, I would agree with
the President, and particularly when he is in office, that
would be the case now South Korea, who clearly rely

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heavily on America to stay safe from the ever present
threat of North Korea right there on its border, clearly
rejected to come in and provide assistance during this war,
and this war, the American slash Israeli war against Islam

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Republic of Iran, was a very direct threat to America.
So I can understand why the president is saying, wait
a minute, why am I funding these exercises. And of
course it's not just about going and practicing what you
might do. What this is is a big show of
force to North Korea, which, in some way, shape or
form would be one of the reasons this strong relationship

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between South Korean and America that they are contained and
they don't really try and push that boundary because it
exists and very strongly up until now. The reason that
dictators in the position of Kim Jong un often don't
try anything else. Yes, they don't have this Islamic extremist
ideology thinking they need to carry out this act of

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evil and destroy Western civilization, et cetera, et cetera. But
you know, he might be tempted for other reasons. But
one of the reasons he doesn't is because of this
strong US opposition and the fact that the allies that
the US has ieu South Korea and those relationships, so
they don't try. But this shows a very significant weakening
in that, doesn't it very significant? And again I get

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it if you're Donald Trump and you're saying, wait a minute,
why am I about to spend hordes of cash that
basically I don't have on an exercise that helped South
Korea much more than I'd argue at the moment that
it would help America when they refused to get involved
in the attempted ending of a threat not just to

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America but to the entire world, which is the halting
of the Islamic regiam of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. So
I get this, and I think he's done it with
Europe on many fronts, a lot to do with Russia
and Ukraine. But the second wave of that when a

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lot of them refuse to I mean, it's one thing
to refuse to send people in, it's another to refuse
to allow America to land in your nations to launch
from there in this war against the Islamic regime of
run terrorists who are seeking to destroy the world. So

(05:13):
I kind of get it. I absolutely get it. Very
interesting to see what their reaction is, what the reaction
of others will be. We know when it comes to
President Trump. It will be devisive regardless, but this is
I mean, this is a big deal. This is a
big deal. But I think he is justified in doing this.

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Relationships don't go one way, particularly with allies. I remember
with Australia, we were asked to send some support when
the US was trying to tackle the issue of the
Whothy's attacking civilian ships, and Australia wasn't very forthcoming. And
I said at the time, you know, this is really

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an own goal. How will we ever expect help if say,
China decides to try and take back Taiwan and war
breaks out in our region, why would the US come
to our aid. It's got to work both ways. And yes,
I understand nations can't be silly about things. In you
there's a lot to weigh out their complex decisions and YadA, YadA, YadA,
But sorry, if your survival depends on your relationship with

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another nation, then you gotta do some lifting there, even
if it's not heavy, you've got to do some lifting.
And South Korea did not lift even a two kilogram
dumbbell when they were asked to do so. It was
more symbolic and they couldn't do it. So, I mean,
this is that kind of FAFO, isn't it f around

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find out and it's holding nations to account and it says, hey,
moving forward, We're not here as a charity organization. We're
here for mutually beneficial relationships. So we'll watch with interest,
won't we how this all plays out? Watch with interest
of course. To Democrats, ah, look he's now cozying up

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to Kim. You're going, sorry, he already did that. This
ain't nothing new, the fact that he has a relationship
with Kim John Owen. But they will paint this as diabolical.
But I'll tell you what they didn't painters diabolical at
the time was the reluctance of our allies. And when
I say our i'm speaking American, the West Australia included
to jump in and do their part in a war

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against a nation close to building nuclear weapons and very
willing as they've demonstrated to use them. A nation that
refuse to jump in when required to help defend the
free world of which they are part. So yeah, the
Democrats will weaponize this. They'll try and say, look, America's

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moving towards North Korea. Well that's not really true at all.
It's not It is not the case at all. What
America is doing, what this president is doing, is saying
to its allies, ship out if you ain't going to
shape up. I don't mind it. See you've seen