The tycoon spoke of ‘purge or revolution’ in South Korea
The presidential office of South Korea reported that it will verify the situation after the American president Donald Trump has said that there seems to be something similar to a “purge or revolution” in Seoul, in view of his next summit with President Lee Jae-myung.
Trump entrusted his statements in a post on Truth, a few hours before the first bilateral summit meeting in the White House. It is not clear what Tycoon was referring to, but the former South Korean president Yoon Suk-Yeol was arrested for his failed attempt to introduce martial law on 3 December.
“What is happening in South Korea? It looks like a purge or a revolution,” Trump wrote. “We cannot afford it and do business there. Today I see the new president in the White House,” he added.
Shortly after the Tycoon post, the presidential spokesman Kang Yu-Jung told journalists that the office will check the situation, reported Yonhap, remarking the need to verify Trump’s statements. The move of the US President has aroused a sensation, since Seoul has committed himself to using the summit to further strengthen bilateral cooperation on defense, economic security, trade and other key sectors, with Washington trying to “modernize” the bilateral alliance in the face of an increasingly assertive China.
Lee was elected to the early presidential elections in June, following the constitutional process that validated the impeachment against Yoon, at the origin of one of the most turbulent political periods in Seoul’s recent history.
It is known that some exponents of the Trump Maga Movement have an unfavorable vision of Lee, who ventilated a rapprochement to China despite the Sino-American rivalry, unlike the conservative Yoon who gave the maximum priority to relations with Washington. Lee has promoted a “pragmatic” diplomatic approach that favors the alliance with the USA, but leaves spaces to stable bonds of Seoul with Beijing, his crucial partner for trade, tourism and peace efforts on the Korean peninsula.
