Source: SFGate
“President Donald Trump greeted Lee Jae Myung, the new president of South Korea, by asserting that a ‘Purge or Revolution’ was taking place there and threatening to not do business with Seoul as he prepared to host the new leader at the White House later Monday. Trump elaborated later Monday that he was referring to raids on churches and on a U.S. military base by the new South Korean government, which ‘they probably shouldn’t have done,’ the president argued. ‘I heard bad things,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday morning. ‘I don’t know if it’s true or not. I’ll be finding out.’ The warning shot previewed a potentially hostile confrontation later Monday as Lee, the liberal leader and longtime critic of Seoul’s conservative establishment, sits down with Trump to discuss Seoul and Washington’s recent trade agreement and continued defense cooperation.” (08/25/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/trade-and-defense-on-the-agenda-as-president-21014219.php