South Korea will essentially, you know, see them as South Korean citizens.
For South Korean people, this joint exercise, it is very much core to the alliance that South Korea has with the United States.
the South Korean government has been trying to keep up with President Trump on the deal
year some 18,000 South Korean troops were to participate as well as you know troops from around 12 countries around
I think South Korean response to this has been more muted and quite ambivalent.
consultations between the South Korean side and the US military.
number of South Korean troops.
got to pull particularly South Korean conservatives with you who are very hawkish on North Korea.
especially in the South Korean society we are different from any other parts of the world I understand the challenges out seniors are facing
Try being a South Korean in Japan.
There's a South Korean -born economist at Oxford called Ha-Joon Chang, who's written a very interesting book titled "Bad Samaritans."
received in South Korean society.
But the only South Korean song allowed was actually a protest song against the dictator regime back in 1970s.
The new South Korean prime minister was a new leader, says she's going to retaliate.
happened in uh South Korea in particular on a South Korean Subway uh and uh a
Trump said he'd recently asked the South Korean president to join the US in the denuclearization of Iran and been told
itself and and the quote South Korean can defend itself at the same level without the
There were some of those South Korean crypto exchanges, like and and a few of those
And they literally chase away the South Korean team.
So North Korea is the enemy from South Korean perspective.
I'm going to be in South Korea in a couple of weeks where I'm going to meet with these people again and try to figure out the South Korean view of all
war and this always has been an anxiety on the South Korean part that if something happens, Americans will walk away instead of helping the South
Previously, US and South Korean
next 11 days and involve thousands of US and South Korean troops.
allow for interoperability between the United States forces and also the South Korean forces.
This is something that's of course a concern to the South Korean military authorities where
really a fairly common political preference from the the South Korean left.
prison for anything as minor as singing a South Korean pop song or sitting on a
And joint US South Korean military exercises are cut short 6 days
And this is where South Korean and American troops, as well as this time there will be a dozen, you know, these
criticize him, but it was the South Korean president today who said he was happy with Donald Trump's move, and actually hoped that the relationship
He claimed South Korean
The South Korean government has responded cautiously to those
President Trump's reindustrialization goals require assistance in terms in terms of provision of South Korean
Peter's done amazing work on recapitulating the whole 3D circulatory system of a South Korean woman, for example.
But I think in America, whenever I meet South Korean friends or people from South Korea, they are very open.
style of techwondo which uh North Korea says is superior to the South Korean style they have 70 schools around the
countries meet and then once you're into Bangkok Thailand they can go into the South Korean Embassy there and once they
I heard more from our South Korean correspondent Jake Quan.
And South Korean leader
You know, it appeals to South Korea's sense of nationalism, it appeals appeals to South Korean sense of
So I think broadly speaking South Korean public and
Well, I think this is this is the big platform for the South Korean left on foreign policy issues, right?
know, on domestic issues, the South Korean left is kind of social democratic.
They come back about two weeks later, now with a much larger team of South Korean soldiers, US soldiers, and UN officials, and all
He's being hypercritical of his South Korean
And we were all very much shocked because uh for South Korean
So, with that as the backdrop to this topic, here is the South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, the man who is aiming to take this very tense
But on foreign policy, the the the big issue for the South Korean left is
And and whereas the South Korean conservatives tend to be hawkish on North Korea, you know,