#ussouth-korea-relations

#ussouth-korea-relations

President Lee Jae Myung stressed to Trump in their Wednesday meeting that the goal was to modernize the alliance with the U.S., noting plans to increase military spending to reduce the financial burden on America. The South Korean leader said there might have been a misunderstanding when they last spoke in August about nuclear-powered submarines, saying that his government was looking for nuclear fuel rather than weapons.

Are relations between the US and China improving? The unresolved trade situations loom large over Trump's visit. Trump said a trade deal with South Korea would be "finalized very soon," speaking to delegates at the APEC CEO summit in the South Korean city of Gyeongju. "We're really wedded, and we have a very special relationship, a special bond. In fact, we're working with you on shipbuilding," the US president added.

The circumstances of the raid were just absolutely abusive, not only in their scope and just the sheer size of it, but the way that the folks at the Hyundai plant were treated by law enforcement,

The South Korean foreign minister, Cho Hyun, is set to travel to the United States on Monday as the fallout continues from an immigration raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia during which over 300 South Korean workers were detained. On Sunday, the South Korean government said it had finalized negotiations for the workers' release and planned to send a charter plane to bring them back to Seoul.

Mr. Eisenhower was determined to bring an end to the Korean War, that took the lives of tens of thousands of U.S. and South Korean military personnel and civilians. On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, halting the fighting, although the war continues till this day. The result was a 2.5-mile buffer zone, separating the two Koreas. The decades that followed the Korean War were tense, with a belligerent North Korea continuing to threaten and provoke South Korea.