It was just the other day I remember reading this analysis:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reviving his grandfather’s Marxist-Leninist principles as the regime confronts complex regional geopolitics and internal challenges. […] In its propaganda output, the Kim regime has emphasized upholding “communist traits” as a moral imperative for North Korean citizens.
And so I found today Trump is officially endorsing “communist traits”, and giving the order to American military to allow communism to grow. Trump today (Sunday) ordered the Pentagon to unpredictably gut Ulchi Freedom Shield (18,000 South Korean soldiers training jointly with American forces), claiming his own order today was “too late to cancel” an exercise that starts… (checks watch) tomorrow.
North Korea, for their part, has threatened the U.S. by describing these very same joint defense exercises as “rehearsal for an aggressive war“. Trump has just called the war-mongering communist regime “unthreatening and respectful” after North Korean soldiers last week crossed the military demarcation line until shots were fired to send them back.
Costs paid by who? Trump has it backwards. South Korea pays the U.S. and he’s an idiot for claiming otherwise. It’s public data.
https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/IF13050.html
Seoul pays roughly a billion dollars a year in burden-sharing under the Special Measures Agreement and financed the overwhelming share of Camp Humphreys, the largest US overseas base (Korea funded roughly 90% of the ~$10.8 billion expansion).
And for what? March 2019, when Key Resolve and Foal Eagle were formally discontinued on Trump’s orders, North Korea gave up nothing and kept building. A concession schedule of the TACO man is not unpredictable to the communist Pyongyang; only to the Pentagon and Seoul.