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struggle4progress

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Sun Sep 3, 2017, 10:52 PM Sep 2017

Seoul worried hes nuts [View all]

By Anna Fifield September 3 at 7:22 PM

TOKYO — South Korea’s president tried late Sunday to dismiss talk of a dispute between Seoul and Washington over how to deal with North Korea .. after .. Trump criticized the South Korean approach as “appeasement.”

Moon Jae-in’s office said that his government would continue to work towards peaceful denuclearization after tweets and actions from Trump that have left South Koreans scratching their heads at why the American president is attacking an ally at such a sensitive time ...

Trump’s .. jab came amid news that the .. president .. instructed advisers to prepare to withdraw from a free-trade agreement with South Korea — a move .. opposed by South Korea and one that would undermine the two countries’ economic alliance ...

"Opinion polls show South Koreans have one of the lowest rates of regard for Trump in the world and they don’t consider him to be a reasonable person," Straub said. "In fact, they worry he’s kind of nuts, but they still want the alliance" ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-latest-test-north-korea-detonates-its-most-powerful-nuclear-device-yet/2017/09/03/4c5202ea-90b4-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html?utm_term=.13d332fb934c

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Seoul worried hes nuts [View all] struggle4progress Sep 2017 OP
Poor South Koreans. Their fate dependent on two less-than-stable narcissists. Expecting Rain Sep 2017 #1
... Lucinda Sep 2017 #2
They are MyOwnPeace Sep 2017 #3
Hitting close to home. pangaia Sep 2017 #4
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