{"id":128241,"date":"2026-08-21T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/128241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:44:12","slug":"donald-trump-tells-reporters-kim-jong-un-understands-me-and-announces-new-military-policy-with-north-korea-very-good-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/128241\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Tells Reporters Kim Jong Un &#8216;Understands Me&#8217; And Announces New Military Policy With North Korea: &#8216;Very Good Relationship&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Donald Trump just announced that he is decreasing military exercises with South Korea, one of the United States&#8217; long-standing allies, in order to <a data-ylk=\"slk:increase favor with North Korea,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shefinds.com\/collections\/barack-obama-podcast-influential-books\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">increase favor with North Korea,<\/a> the leader of whom Trump feels he has a &#8220;very good relationship with.&#8221; This has caused outcry amongst American citizens, given the military threat that North Korea poses not only to the US, but to the world. Keep reading for more information.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"donald trump kim jong un\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"680\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/shefinds_255\/2e5ea564fba24c61f7f98ea7b37b4799.jpg\"\/>Donald Trump Says He Has A &#8216;Very Good Relationship&#8217; With Kim Jong Un<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taking to <a data-ylk=\"slk:Truth Social;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117107215379637520\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social<\/a>, President Trump posted about his relationship with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un: &#8220;Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises!&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, &#8216;No thanks!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"donald trump\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"680\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/shefinds_255\/c54648e0036792248c23f1ca4e3ad19a.jpg\"\/>Social Media Reactions<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Across social media platforms, users were generally appalled by Trump&#8217;s choices. &#8220;Nothing says &#8216;strong on national security&#8217; like slashing joint military drills with an actual ally because they wouldn&#8217;t help start a war, then turning around and calling a dictator with a missile program &#8216;respectful&#8217;,&#8221; one person wrote on Instagram. &#8220;Make it make sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Absolutely <a data-ylk=\"slk:an embarrassment;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shefinds.com\/collections\/donald-trump-grandad-trousers-slicked-back-hair-golf\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">an embarrassment<\/a> for the US,&#8221; another person posted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He&#8217;s out of control, South Korea is one of our biggest political partners, he&#8217;s isolating the country because he lost a war of choice, it&#8217;s insane,&#8221; another agreed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Well they both are dictators so understandable,&#8221; one comment reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So we&#8217;re fighting with Iran to prevent them from having nuclear weapons, but he&#8217;s okay with North Korea having nuclear weapons now?&#8221; questioned another user.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;What in the actual f*** is wrong with this man?&#8221; a final user asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump just announced that he is decreasing military exercises with South Korea, one of the United States&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,141,31,37698,34,3104,33,29752],"class_list":["post-128241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-military-exercises","tag-north-korea","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-south-korea","tag-truth-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}