“Excerpts from Ambassador James Lilley: Don’t Count on China or South Korea.”China now seeks to increase its influence on the Korean peninsula and gradually reduce the U.S. military presence there. But North Korea’s adventurism with weapons of mass destruction adds a volatile element.
9/11 it’s apparent to me from my conversations with well-placed people here that Washington’s distrust of Moon runs very deep. In contrast to the media’s tendency to amplify every misstep by Trump on Korea, they have largely embargoed the very real reasons for Washington’s distrust of Moon.
4/6 I’ve long believed that the topic of Korean influence, which has already yielded one major influence-peddling scandal in Washington, would be an appropriate one for a congressional hearing. Censorship and foreign influence are grave national security issues for both the U.S. and South Korea.
“That President Moon granted an interview to Mr. Shorrock should alarm us for the same reason it alarmed us when Donald Trump gave an interview to Alex Jones. ”
On more occasions than I could ever describe here, members of “left” parties, and the civic groups and labor unions that support them, have been caught propagating Pyongyang’s ideology or acting as its agents for espionage — even violent attacks in support of a putative North Korean invasion