Former President Donald Trump's seemingly tough public stance on U.S. troops in South Korea is part of a negotiating strategy and does not mean Mr. Trump would pull all American forces from the Korean peninsula, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks before former President Donald Trump at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. **FILE**Former President Donald Trump’s seemingly tough public stance on U.S. troops in South Korea is part of a negotiating strategy and does not mean Mr. Trump would pull all American forces from the Korean peninsula, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday.
“To in any way send a signal to Kim Jong-un that an attack on South Korea would be acceptable would be suicidal,” Mr. Gingrich continued. “And Trump fully understands — he’s met with Kim Jong-un.” “If you are assuming that the United States is going to break its spear, if you will, fighting North Korea, that is an imprudent assumption for us to make or for you to make,” Mr. Colby told Yonhap News Agency, a major South Korean news service, last month. “South Korea is going to have to take primary, essentially overwhelming responsibility for its own self-defense against North Korea because we don’t have a military that can fight North Korea and then be ready to fight China.
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