2024-02-13 13:47:00
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. /yunhap news
Testimony was revealed that former President Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the US presidential election to be held in November, strongly opposed the stationing of US troops in Korea and Japan during his term in office (2017-2021). CNN reported on the 12th that senior Trump administration officials, including former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, made this claim in an interview in its anchor Jim Shuto’s book ‘The Return of the Great Powers’, which will be published next month.
Former Director Kelly said, “Trump’s disdain for America’s security commitments will also affect our mutual defense promises with South Korea and Japan,” and “Trump is adamant about stationing U.S. troops in Korea and Japan as a deterrent.” set) opposed it,” he said. He also recalled that Trump thought of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un as ‘okay guys.’ “(Trump thought) it was as if we were provoking them.” “‘There was no NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). “If so, Putin wouldn’t have done this,” he said. Trump was embroiled in controversy recently when he made a statement to NATO allies at a rally that said, “If they do not pay sufficient defense costs, they may tolerate a Russian attack.” Former national security adviser John Bolton said in a book that if Trump returns to power, “he will try to withdraw (from NATO).”
Kelly, a former Marine Corps captain who served as Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security, was called the ‘Axis of Adults’ along with former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and was a person who kept Trump’s impulsive style in check. The Los Angeles Times said, “Kelly’s credit is partly to persuading Trump to prevent the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and withdrawal from NATO.” In the memoir of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, published in 2022, there is testimony that in 2019 Trump called for a ‘complete withdrawal of US troops from Korea’ and that then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dissuaded him by saying, “Let’s do it in his second term.” During his presidency, Trump demanded that South Korea significantly increase its defense cost sharing.
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